HUNGARY: Otto's Majesty

"During the past seven years through which my Government has held office, I have been obliged to answer the Parliamentary question now before me thirty-five times. I shall now answer it once more."

Thus spoke Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, last week, in Hungary's great Gothic House of Parliament beside the Danube at Budapest. The Count, an inflexible and secretive dictator, had just been asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of...

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