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...table, this time for three more hours of slugging, off-the-record negotiation. They proceeded to talk turkey about Italy's ambition to have naval equality with France, about French insistence that Il Duce stop flirting with the idea of ultimate revision of the Treaties of Versailles, Trianon. St. Germain, etc. More especially they talked about Abyssinia...
Inevitably, after the war, Hungary caught the itch to rearm. The Treaty of Trianon, by which she made peace with the Airlines and Associated Powers, for bade it. Schneider-Creusot, however, was above treaties. Hungary got the money with which to place a large order with Skoda, the Schneider-Creusot subsidiary in Czechoslovakia--got it through the Banquet General de Credit Hongrois; Which in turn is financed by the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne, of which Eugene Schnelder is a director. Thus it was that Schneider contrived once again to circumvent his government and rearm a nation that France...
...achieved so far. The control of these myriad companies vests, finally, in not more than a handful of men whose power, in some ways, reaches above the power of the State itself. Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation of the Treaty of Trianon, but when Hungary defaulted on the bill the armorers got the French government to lend Hungary the money to pay the French armorers. Thus, too, the great Czechoslovakian armament company, controlled by Frenchmen, promoted the rise of Hitler in Germany and contributed millions of marks to Hitler's campaign. These same...
...developed that behind the conspiracy was a mixed combination of malcontents. Some of them were men of alien Transylvania which the Treaty of Trianon took from Hungary to add to Rumania. Others were Iron Guardsmen, deputized by their mystical and formidable leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Others were plain Lupescu-haters. Still others were merely against Premier Tatarescu. All that united them was hatred for the Sinaia Camarilla, the group of Lupescu's friends who meet with the King at the palace of Sinaia...
...other possible pretender to the Habsburg throne (but of Hungary only) is the Archduke Albrecht, great-grandson of the brother of Franz Josef's grandfather. His claims, remote though they seem, are based on the fact that since the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary is theoretically free to choose any King she wants, and both branches of his family have lived in Hungary for at least two generations. Unfortunately for the schemes of Albrecht's mother, the Archduchess Isabella, who died in 1931, Albrecht renounced his rights four years ago (TIME, June...