The Hinister of Education and Public Worship, count Klebelsberg, the Catholic Bishop of Budapest, Bishop Johann Meszaros, the head of the Reformed Church of Hungary (Presbyterian), Bishop Ravarsz, the head of the Evangelical Church (Lutheran), Bishop Dr. Alexander Raffay, the head of the Unitarian Church, Bishop Nicholas Jozan, the Lord Mayor of Budapest, Dr. Ripka, and the president of the police were present to-day at the funeral of Eugen Poth, the victim of the shooting outrage in the Great Synagogue during Fassover.
A sensation has been created here by a story published in the press suggesting that the assassin, Satloka, is not insane at all, and that the affair was deliberately planned at an antisemitic meeting held in Budapest, with the participation of representatives of the Roumanian Cuzists and the German Hitlerists.
A Jewish restaurant-keeper named Abraham Noll has informed the police that the week before Passover, he overheard an antisemitic journalist named Joseph Palich whispering in his restaurant to some people at the same table that a big anti-Jewish move was being planned. Palich has been interrogated by the police, and he has admitted that big preparations were being made for an anti-Jewish offensive, in the form of wholesale distribution of pamphlets fixing the respensibility for the economic distress upon the Jews, but he denies that there was any talk of revolver shooting in the synagogues.
The affair has come at a most inopportune moment for the Government, in the midst of the preparations which are being made for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the consolidation Government headed by Count Bethlen, which was formed on April 14th., 1921.
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