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...this was impossible. Then the Wilhelmstrasse tried to blackmail Hungary by threatening to "rectify" the 1940 Vienna award which returned Transylvania to Hungary. Having struggled most of his public life to regain Hungary's lost territories, Dr. Bardossy tried to follow the example of his predecessor, Count Paul Teleki, who, when pressed too hard by the Germans, put a bullet through his head. (Dr. Bardossy was prevented...
Hungary's Little Men also promptly joined the grab. Anti-Axis Premier Count Paul Teleki had died by suicide or murder a fortnight before (TIME, April 14) and Hungary lost no time turning its four-months-old non-aggression pact with Yugoslavia into a scrap of paper. Grim, square-jawed Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy sent troops into Yugoslavia to seize 8,000 square miles of rich cornfields and dairy lands, watered by the Danube and Tisza Rivers, which the treaty makers took from Austria-Hungary after World...
After signing that treaty Foreign Minister Count Csáky died mysteriously on his way back from Belgrade to Budapest (TIME, Feb. 3). Tough, square-jawed Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary, asked Count Csáky's successor, Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, to step into the shoes of Premier Teleki. Budapest called Premier Bardossy "another tightrope walker"-meaning no offense-but with Germany riding herd in Hungary, there was no more tightrope to walk. Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations this week and prepared to bomb German troop concentrations in Hungary, a process already begun in Rumania and Bulgaria...
...Associated Press wire from Budapest revealed something hitherto unknown about the dead Premier: "Teleki was one of the men behind the book Why Germany Cannot Win The War, which broke all sales records in Hungary. Teleki told the author, Ivan Lajos, that he intended to ban the book-after it had sold 100,000 copies. He added that he would ban it before that unless a copy was put in the hands of every Hungarian Army officer...
...more revealing report on Count Teleki came from the typewriter of Columnist Dorothy Thompson, to whom last year he gave a monograph he had written on the structure of European nations. (He had once been a professor of geography.) At that time he said of Transylvania: "I would rather wait another generation than get it by grace of the Germans." But Teleki had no choice. Columnist Thompson asked him: "What will you do if the Germans insist on using Hungary as a base for operations against another State?" He replied: "It will be Hungary's historic catastrophe...