Word: istvan
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...bracketing of Pilsudski and Batory is dear to Poles. Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
...Vatican to the Air Ministry, to Il Duce's office. Shortly stumpy little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over the Alps in an airplane and started a similar round of visits on his own. Hurrying to Rome to see what it was all about came Istvan Antal, press chief of Hungary and special representative of Premier Gombos, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland and the Polish Minister to Berlin, Dr. Alfred Wysocki. Also in Rome, though only an unnoticed bystander, was that exuberant British Fascist, 'Sir Oswald Mosley, who put in his word: "Fascism...
...judged by this show, can be called interesting, but hardly of outstanding importance. It lacks on the whole a depth of thought and feeling, without which the paintings appear weak and insipid. This is not however a wholesale condemnation, for there are notable exceptions in this exhibition. Istvan Pekary, for instance, in his small canvas called "The Funeral," has with his purposely naive and provincial style given us a picture fairly bristling with emotion. For some reason, his many genre figures scattered all over the picture do not distract us from the central idea...