HUNGARY: National Ordeal

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Policemen lined the streets of Budapest. They scooted about on bicycles. Whenever Admiral Horthy, Regent* of the Kingdom of Hungaria, rode forth, the policemen cleared the entire street down which he was to ride. At length they held back an enormous crowd gathered to witness the opening of the Hungarian Parliament. Excitement ran high, for it was known that Premier Count Bethlen would present to the Deputies the Government's position with respect to the "national scandal," the recently discovered plot to flood France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18)....

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