Word: budapests
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...Czechoslovakia. In Slovak areas Hungarians had hoped to find some of that "yearning" for Hungary which the Sudetens felt for Germany. However, as soon as the Slovaks were given some of the chance to act big which they have long been denied in Czechoslovakia, they started being niggardly with Budapest about giving back the Hungarian minority in Slovakia...
...BUDAPEST--Hungary tonight ordered the mobilization of five military classes, bringing about 300,000 reservists under arms, as heavy fighting and bloodshed spread across the Czechoslovak frontier in areas which Hungary demands. The mobilization order was issued after the government was said to have informed Europe's big powers of possible "extreme measures" to bring the Czechs to terms...
...Warsaw and in Budapest last week the overwhelming will of two highly emotional peoples to grab slices of Czechoslovakia was such that Poland and Hungary would certainly have overthrown their Cabinets, had not Polish Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz and Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy been 100% in accord with popular opinion. A slice of defeated Hungary containing 1,000,000 Magyars was carved off in 1920 by the Allies to help make up Czechoslovakia...
...Prague, undaunted President Eduard Benes, still "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," calmly considered high-powered demands he had received from Warsaw and from Budapest, each saying in effect "You must let us take what was ours in Czechoslovakia-or else...
...some football teams have co-captains, so some symphonies have co-conductors. Back to work from his summer home in Sanbornville, N.H. last week went one of the Philadelphia orchestra's co-conductors, blond-haired, Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy had spent a diligent summer, working over programs, boning up on the violin, his first love, with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz...