National Affairs: Karolyi Unmuzzled

Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, counting the remaining hours of his term of office, addressed a letter to Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was replying to a letter requesting information as to how and why Count Karolyi, past-President and present-exile of the Hungarian Republic had been forbidden the right to speak in public during a visit to this country (TIME, Mar. 2). Many observers saw an ironic justice in the fact that one of the last communications of the erudite Secretary was addressed to the self-determined man...

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