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Laced as it is with mountains, this area is larger than it looks. Vienna at the western edge of the map is no farther from the Atlantic Ocean than it is from the Crimea in the eastern half of the map. The Hungarian Plain-the fringes of which are shared by Germany, Yugoslavia and Rumania is roughly as large as the northern half of France. After the Danube escapes from this plain through the Iron Gate it emerges into another plain, the northern part of which belongs to Rumania, the southern part to Bulgaria. But the biggest and most fertile...
...write such a book than Gustav Regler. A leftish German émigré writer, Regler was one of scores of salon Bolsheviki who, drawn like flies by the smell of blood, swarmed down on Spain in 1936. There he ran into his great & good friend, Matei Jalka Lukacz, former Hungarian officer, former defender of the Marxist faith in matters esthetic for Linkskurve (Left Curve), the most influential German Marxist literary magazine. In Spain Lukacz (General Paul in The Great Crusade) was general of the Eleventh and Twelfth International Brigades. He quickly made Author Regler (Albert in The Great Crusade...
Before & After. During the whole agonizing abdication crisis Hungarian troops, led by Regent Horthy on a white charger, were slowly moving into Transylvania. Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...
...present their claim to Transylvania. The delegates were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest and Count Csaky had a talk with the German and Italian Ministers, then went off to Vienna, taking Count Teleki with him. Hungarian warplanes made practice flights over the Transylvanian border...
Fellowe was Hungarian Pianist Franz Liszt. One of the women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They...