Word: magyars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest, Dr. Geza Szullo, onetime champion of Hungarian interests in Czecho-Slovakia, told the Upper Chamber of Parliament that German-protected Slovakia was systematically abusing its Magyar minority, that Slovak propaganda was "making attempts to spoil the harmony between Germany and Hungary." This made the Senators so angry that Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky had to reply with a speech that was scarcely less inflammatory. Said he: "Hungary may have to take risks for the protection of her national honor. The Hungarian Government . . . will act at the appropriate moment." Germany shipped tanks and supplies to eastern Slovakia, concentrated...
...same idea: Zoltán Kodály. The two got together, noted down several thousand melodies. Kodály drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bartók's mature music suggested his homeland only by a tricky complex of rhythms, dressed up in some of the sourest dissonances ever devised...
...propagandist Fourth Front, as important as the military, economic and diplomatic fronts, BBC puts out 100,000 foreign-language words a day in everything from Magyar to Hindustani. This keeps a staff of 300 busy with 21 daily foreign broadcasts...
...people had thought much about Sudeten Germans before Adolf Hitler began pitying them. Almost no one-except a few professional anthropologists and race historians-had even heard of the Szeklers before last week. But according to Hungarian papers, these poor people, who are of purest Magyar stock, were taking a pitiful mauling from the barbaric Rumanians. Thirty-six Szekler boys, whose innocent pleasure it was to gather and chat studiously about Hungarian arts and literature, were rounded up and "put through the third degree by the Rumanian police and mistreated in such a cruel way that some of them were...
...term was last week being used in its broad sense-any Magyar in Rumania...