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...swarthy, little Magyar, with almond eyes, bristling, black mustache and sensuous lips that spat Hungarian, German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian with the staccato speed of a Browning machine gun, died in Budapest last week. He was 46-year-old Count Stephen Csáky, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in whose aristocratic veins flowed the blood of Hungary's unscrupulous, wheedling past. Assured of a career by virtue of birth, Count Csáky became Europe's foremost professional in the art of diplomatic tightrope-walking even after the rope had become a Balkan tangle...
...last count, General Chaffee's A. F. had 6,400 vehicles (tanks, trucks, motorcycles, motorized artillery, etc.), 26,000 men. The First Division was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., the Second Division at Fort Benning, Ga. Next year, if all goes better with the armored force than with the rest of the defense program, two more divisions will be organized. At least two, perhaps six more will follow. Even then the U. S. armored force will be a puny rival of Germany's land fleets, which now have twelve full divisions, 55,000 tanks-and no Mae Wests...
...duty done, Kyösti Kallio walked approvingly into the Presidential Palace to congratulate his successor. Then, while cheering Finns crowded Helsinki's streets, waving torches, singing the Finnish Army march, Porilaisten Marssi, he drove slowly off to the station, heading for retirement on his model farm in the country...
...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
...last September President Kallio's health was ebbing fast. The hasty German press already had him dead from a heart attack. The heart attack was real, but hardy Kyösti Kallio did not die. Instead, two months later, unable to work as hard as Finns think a man must, he resigned...