HUNGARY: Magyar Points

In any fair contest to pick the blackest reactionaries in all Europe, Hungary's picturesque League of Awakened Magyars would win easily by several leopard skins— which Magyar nobles wear on state occasions slung across their hereditary, gold-frogged uniforms.

Abruptly last week the Awakened Magyars published a Program of 46 points. "Abolition of the so-called liberal rights now existing in Hungary," they clarioned, "must be followed by a return to the medieval structure of Hungarian public life!"

First step would be to freeze all Hungarians "each in the class to which he rightly belongs."...

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