HUNGARY: Red Catherine

Countess Michael Karclyi, known in Hungary as "Red Catherine," arrived in Manhattan on the George Washington "to recoup her lost fortune" by giving lectures at $250 apiece on Hungarian affairs before and after the War.

The Countess and her husband were responsible for the establishment of the Hungarian Republic in 1918. Next year, so their enemies averred, they "sold the country to the Bolsheviki." Hence S. Stan wood Menken, President of the National Security League, was up in arms to prevent the landing in the...

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