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Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
Into the highceilinged, ornamental, gilt-walled hall of the Hungarian Parliament's Lower Chamber walked surefootedly one day last week a young, handsome aristocratic statesman exuding confidence. He was Count Stephan Csáky, Hungary's Foreign Minister; before him were 262 uniformed deputies, waiting expectantly to hear a scheduled speech on foreign relations...
...Bucharest the reaction to this sudden recrudescence of Hungarian Irredentism was instantaneous. Rumanians thought it no coincidence that German troops were reported concentrating at just that time in the Nazi dependency of Slovakia, north of Hungary, and they suspected that the troops were meant not only as a reminder to Rumania to behave but also as a hint to Hungary that toughness toward Rumania was expected...
...from Khovanstichina Moussorgsky (Soloist: Fred Rogosin, 1G) Harvard Follow me down to Carlow Irish Folk Tune Nina Porgolese (Soloist: Donald S. Dever, Jr., '41) Ca' Hawkie Through the Watter North England Folk Tune The Turtle Dove Scotch Tune (Soloist: Hunter H. Comly, '41) More Was Lost at Mohacs Field Hungarian Folk Song Yale Brothers, Sing On Grieg Yale and Harvard American Folk Songs (a) Ain't Dat Good News? (Spiritual) arr. by William Dawson (b) Soon One Morning (Spiritual) arr. by Marshal Bartholomew (c) Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (Spiritual) (Soloist: M.D. Stafford, '40) (d) Cindy (Carolina Fiddle Tune...