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...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...
...Pavlo Skoropadsky, onetime Tsarist general, for six months Hetman (head man) of the short-lived Republic of the Ukraine, formed in early 1918 by the German Imperial Government. Another White Russian espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...
Born in Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest, Raisz received his doctor's degree at Columbia and has been associated with the Department of Geography for a number of years. His maps and illustrations in the University's various publications have made him well known around Cambridge...
...Hungary last week the Cabinet fell (and rose again four days later) as a result of demonstrations in Budapest by grab crazy mobs who did not think that Hungary's 4,800-square-mile grab was enough. In Sofia, Bulgaria, grab fever rose high at week's end, the 19th anniversary of the Treaty of Neuilly. Through Sofia's streets day before the anniversary milled a defiant crowd of 20,000 who demanded land back from Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece. Martial law was declared, firemen turned their hoses on demonstrators, 1,000 were arrested. Chances are that...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...