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...been written of him that he is the "Pure Fool of Hungary with the accent on the pure." Recently the Budapest Supreme Court confiscated his lands, finding him guilty of high treason. There is no question of accents. Karolyi is either a fool or a traitor; most probably a fool: At the end of October, 1918, he formed the Hungarian Provisional National Assembly, and some time later he was elected first and last President of the Hungarian People's Republic. At this time Hungary was at war with the Allies. Karolyi either surrounded himself, or, more probably was surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Kdrolyi to Canada | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally, he returns?it is the only act of service he can do Utopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Like Gods | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...ARNOLD. An intrepid and an able soldier. (" Perhaps it was vanity that made him so, but war can put up with a lot of vanity of that description.") Likewise he was an intrepid and an able spender. His merit unrewarded, his vanity injured, his purse empty, he deliberately turned traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Motives* | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...right of the public to a square deal on all occasions -to a fair show for its 'white alley.' I consider a newspaper to be the retained attorney for the public, and I believe a newspaper which is faithless to that trust is as much of a traitor as an attorney who betrays the interests of the client who employs him." Against the common charges of vulgar sensationalism, of pandering to the evil in men's minds, of propagating and feeding prejudices and class-hatred, Mr. Hearst made no defense. Among those present at the dinner were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Speech | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

Kemal has stepped from the crucible of conflicting calumnies with an unstained reputation. Some of these wild reports charged him with being anything from a traitor to his country to being a "foreigner." Kemal is pure Turk (not, as some have said, a Jew) and has proved to the whole world that he is the core of Modern Turkey. He is a fine type of professional soldier, who has earned his laurels by sticking to his calling. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in his admirably written book, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, says of him: "He proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE NEAR EAST | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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