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...took a fantastic turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round...
While the strong right hand of the Teleki Government was cracking down on the Nazis, the dexterous left hand went on signing up with them. In Budapest, Hungary's Foreign Minister Count Stefan Ćsáky signed the anti-Comintern pact with representatives of Italy, Japan and Germany at the very moment the raids were in progress. In this Alice in Wonderland atmosphere, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wired congratulations to Hungary on its adherence to "the pact ... for fighting the subversive elements which threaten world peace...
Summoned by Regent Horthy to succeed Dr. Imredy was 60-year-old Count Paul Teleki, Hungary's Boy Scout leader, a Catholic Transylvanian nobleman, an expert geographer and member of Britain's Royal Geographical Society. Notable it was that...
...Count Teleki retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
...great patron of scouting. Count Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets. Swart Egyptian Scouts wore fezzes, Irak turned out in sun helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were...