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From its perch on the towering crags of Buda one dawn last week the Hungarian Foreign Office abruptly announced that Premier Count Paul Teleki had just died of a heart attack. Intimates of the Teleki family whispered that Count Teleki had taken poison. Finally doctors who examined the body signed a one-sentence communiqué: "Premier Teleki committed suicide at dawn April...
Whether Count Teleki had committed suicide in despair-perhaps even to arouse his people-because he believed Hungary was about to be completely engulfed by Hitler, or whether he had been killed by the Gestapo lest he initiate an anti-Axis coup d'état like that which took place in Belgrade last fortnight, he died because his policy was fatal. The "tightrope Premier," who had tried to serve Hungary's interests by cooperating with Germany, was not able to make...
...last two years Count Teleki had succeeded in getting back for Hungary large pieces of territory she once owned. Hungary, which was chopped down after World War I from 125,000 square miles to 35,875 square miles, has by Nazi favor grown to 67,000 square miles. But Count Teleki had to pay for these gains. Last year Hungary issued over 6,000 transit visas to Nazi fifth columnists entering the Balkans disguised as tourists. Premier Teleki also obliged by letting German fighting forces and their supplies pass freely across Hungary on their way to browbeat Rumania and Bulgaria...
...long in beginning. German SS men have circulated freely in Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria recently on the pretext that they were directing the rehabilitation of Germans returning to the Fatherland. Last week in Hungary the Arrow Cross Party of Naziphile Ferenc Szalesi presented to Premier Count Paul Teleki a demand for a voice in the Government, which was a sure preliminary to the Nazification of the country and a probable invitation to the German Army. Hungary is the first station on the Drang nach Östen...
...emissary of Regent Nicholas Horthy, especially picked for the purpose, kissed Count Teleki on both cheeks. The map in Liberty Square was replanted to obliterate the border between Hungary and the ceded wedge of Transylvania...