HUNGARY: Up With Bela Kun!

Plots to restore 17-year-old Archduke Otto to the Throne of Hungary and rumored meetings of Royalist conspirators in Hungarian castles have kept Hungarians in a romantic haze of Graustarkian intrigue for many months. Last week the crack of rifles in Budapest snapped citizens back to reality, and the problems of unemployment.

From 11 o'clock in the morning a trickle of unemployed began sifting in from Budapest's industrial suburbs toward the Inner City and the Municipal Park. With the noon whistle, when thousands of factory hands threw down their tools, the trickle swelled to...

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