Two thousand persons attended the first meeting today of the “blue cross” organization, patterned after German national socialism in its anti-Jewish, anti-communist and anti-liberal program, the Havas News Agency reported.
The members of the extreme rightist group saluted their leader A. Csillery with extended right arm in imitation of the Italian fascist salute. Csillery, former president of the anti-Semitic party “Hungary Awake,” is now a member of the Christian Economic and Social Party.
The program of the new fascist group as outlined by orators at the meeting was as follows:
1. To prepare for a conflict in favor of territorial revision by increased military training;
2. To force land-owners and bankers “to put themselves at the service of the nation;”
3. To fight simultaneously against Marxism and liberalism;
4. To consider all Hungarian Jews as foreigners.
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