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Hungarian politics took a fantastic turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round...
Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
...diplomats, Baron Bessenyei-Bakach, was quietly tending another iron which the hard-headed Admiral has in another fire. In Bled, Yugoslavia, the Baron was attending a meeting of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania), satellites of France. There on behalf of Regent and Hungarian Premier Béla Imrédy, the Baron "agreed in principle" to a pact whereby: 1) Hungary would be relieved of her obligation under the Treaty of Trianon (1919) not to rearm; 2) Hungary and the Little Entente would refrain from employing force of any kind against one another; 3) the Little Entente would speedily...
Before leaving Berlin, Premier Imrédy explained to the German press that the real purpose of the "informal agreement" at Bled was to get concessions for Hungarian minorities in neighboring states. This neatly absolved Admiral Horthy of double dealing while he was accepting Hitler's hospitality, made it appear that he was trying to do the same thing as his host, get minority concessions out of Czechoslovakia...
...diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...