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...expected to sit in judgment when it convenes in March. The case was that involving five carloads of machine gun parts, smuggled last December from Italy across Austria and into Hungary, where they arrived on New Year's Day. This smugglery (a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary is disarmed) has caused Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, to demand a League investigation. Therefore, last week, Continental statesmen were electrified when it was announced, at Budapest, that the machine gun parts had been ordered broken up and would be sold as junk. Never did a suspected criminal...
Both Italy and Hungary, now quasi-allies (TIME, April 18), are placed in a difficult legal position, since Hungary stands officially disarmed by the Allies under the Treaty of Trianon, to which Italy was a signatory. ¶ "B" stood for Bucharest. Thence Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania sped, last week, to Rome. Emerging from a lengthy conversation with // Duce he said: "We thoroughly discussed every single problem interesting our two countries and found a perfect identity of view. This is not an idle phrase. I mean it literally. I think I have said plenty...
...those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women. The mad King loves, and believes he has always loved, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI. For her Ludwig has built Linderhof, an improvement (think Bavarians) on the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Then, because he admires le grand Monarque, Louis XIV, King Ludwig has built Herrenschiemsee?to surpass even the Palace of Versailles...
...persons including the chief of police of Budapest. Finally Count Bethlen succeeded in getting the Opposition leaders to promise that they would restrain their cohorts from too many embarrassing questions. The Deputies filed into the Chamber itself. President Zitovsky declared Parliament in session: "Not since the Treaty of Trianon was imposed upon Hungary at the close of the War, have we gone through such an ordeal as now. . . . This scandal is inflicting colossal harm upon our country. We owe it to her prestige, nay to her very existence, to see that this dastardly crime is expiated." Premier Bethlen arose...
...shoot up this veritable iceberg, which caused the famed Tokay wine region to suffer a flood loss of ten billion crowns ($100,000). Angry Hungarians ran about shrieking that the Roumanian Government had aggravated the floods by opening certain sluice gates in violation of the Treaty of the Trianon...