INTERNATIONAL: Quadruple Fall

The cabinets of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria resigned on four successive days last week. Though these four "great falls" followed one another like the toppling of so many tenpins they were in fact unrelated as to cause. A tourist, darting by commercial air routes from one capital to another might well have been present when each cabinet resigned and have satisfied himself as to the cause upon the spot. Such a tourist would perhaps have made entries in his diary about as follows:

Prague, Czechoslovakia. "Alighted at the Kbely aerodrome this morning...

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