After the Hungarian election it seemed that the wave of reaction was receding. But now the "Awakening Magyars'" are again active. In order to counteract the growing influence of the Social Democrats, the "Awakenings" declare they have assumed the role of the Italian Fascisti. As such they seek to mobilize all Humgarian patriots "to protect the race," i.e, oppress democracy and the Jewish population as ruthlessly as possible. At the same time, their political intentions are of great importance; the Cabinet of Count Bethlen, who has worked against them for months without being able to break the power of the reactionaries, is to be replaced by a Government of Fascisti.
Ivan Hejjas and other notorious leaders of the White Perror movement have again started hostile propaganda in West Hungary. According to a report in the "DPester Lloyd'? Hejjas had a most enthusiastic reception there on inspecting a detachment of insurgents, to whom he declared that at the striking of the hour he would march at their head and they would again unfold the old flag. The Government finds itself in a difficult position, as quite a number of men in opposite camps have rallied and art inciting the pro-} vinees. Despite official prohibition, secret societies have been founded all over the country to' fight the present regime. It is remarkable that the Legitimists, too,-are attempting to take advantage of the Premier's predicament. Recently Counts Apponyi and Zichy handed im a clamation in favour. of "King Otto" (the ten-year-old child of Karl), and although Hungary, when admitted into the League of Nations, gave an international guarantee regarding the dethronization of the Hapsburgs, the Governments has now felt too feeble to protest against the Legitimist proclamation.
Tntimidated by the "Awakenings," the judge sentences journalists who oppose the Terrorists in a way incompatible with all ideas of justice. One of the most outrageous acts is the release from prison of Dobes, one of the murderers of the old Jewish merchant Landaw Dodes was sentenced to three years' -imprisonment, but thanks to this good connexions (he is a member of the Hejjas corps) he was set free, and even the 100,000 kronen, bail at first. demanded of him was retwined.
One of the chief features of the Magyar movement is the new and energetic campaign against the Jews. Violent demonstrations were made at the Budapest Polytechnic High School by the students, so that only a very limited number of Jewish students would be admitted. Both at the Polytechnic and the University the Jews were driven out of the rooms and attacked with sticks. The Minister for Education, Count Klebelsberg, has been urnable. to treat the rebellious young men with a firm hand, but has compromised by promising them a special institute of their own on most: favourable terms. The new Opposition party go so far as to demand that. only 5 per cent. of Jews, as compared with others, are to be admitted as doctors, lawyers, business men, ete. Quite a number of foreign Jews are to be expelled from Budapest and other places.
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