HUNGARY: Week's Duels

Hungarian politicians have worse tempers and more physical courage than any other politicians in Europe. Last week Hungarian politics broke out in a fret of duels, talked and fought.

Central figures were three sometime friends, once all leaders in Hungary's anti-Communist coalition, now the three most conspicuous rivals in Hungary. They were Premier Julius Gömbös, onetime Premier Count Stephen Bethlen and Tibor Eckhardt, Hungary's delegate to the League of Nations until four months ago. Lately Count Bethlen in a campaign speech quoted Premier Gömbös against Delegate Eckhardt. Herr Eckhardt screamed slander,...

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