HUNGARY: Growing Agitation

Dramatically announcing that he could no longer support the Government of Premier Count Julius Karolyi. a Deputy was explaining to Parliament last week his reasons for shifting into Opposition when suddenly roving-eyed Deputy Ludwig Szilagyi shouted: "Gentlemen, there is kissing going on in the gallery!" As Deputies raised their eyes to the gallery they saw a handsome young woman lapped upon a man of aristocratic mien. With a shriek she fled, he followed and Speaker Almassy had difficulty in quieting the excited Deputies. "To be sure we all recognize her and we all recognize him," said Speaker Almassy severely, "but the fact that an actress and a lawyer* have procured gallery tickets and used them for an irregular purpose is, gentlemen, of no great moment." Of maximum moment was a speech by Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen last week, his first since he resigned as Premier (TIME, Aug. 31).

"Stern measures must be taken to quell growing agitation among the peasants," cried Count Bethlen, famed for his ruthlessness in office. "Growing radical tendencies on the farms have become a menace to the State."

Snapped Minister of Interior Keresztes-Fischer, who controls the police, "I agree. Count Bethlen is right as usual."