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...take a flutter on weekly, Western-style soccer pools or at the track, where the sport of kings has jockeys in government colors riding state-owned nags. Bettors watch the morning line more closely than the party line, have made big sellers of such magazines as Hungary's Pesti Turf. So high is the gambling fever in Yugoslavia that one party wag has remarked that the state flag ought to have "two crossed croupier rakes on a green baize background...
...crusade for a greater Hungary. The Daily Mail took up Hungary's cause in 1927, for five years harped on the "wanton" dismemberment of Hungary at Versailles. Astonished Hungarians went wild with enthusiasm, showered gifts on Rothermere, named a street after him in Budapest. A Hungarian newspaper, Pesti Hirlap, supposedly backed by some members of the Government, offered Rothermere the crown of Hungary. When he refused, it was offered to his son Esmond...
...hostile to a Habsburg restoration in Hungary!" abruptly announced Prime Minister Juliu Maniu of Rumania last week. Meanwhile the Prime Minister of Hungary, brusque Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen was packing up for a visit to London, but found time to dictate a retort published by the Budapest Pesti Hirlap in which he said: ''All talk about a personal union of Hungary with Rumania under the crown of King Carol II is nonsense-utter nonsense...
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