A stormy session of the Lower House today heard Premier Paul Teleki reiterate charges that German money had helped finance Hungarian Nazis in the recent Parliamentary election. Koloman Hubay, Parliamentary leader of the Nazi Arrow Cross party, asked for proof from Count Teleki of the accusations he had made recently in a public address.
Count Teleki said that on May 8 and 9 a foreigner had bought 600,000 pengoes in Hungarian currency on the Zurich exchange. A report of the National Bank of Hungary, the Premier continued, indicated that no use of this money was made in the country’s economic life. It is evident, he declared, that the purchase of this currency was connected with the elections.
Hubay answered that Teleki had still not furnished proof. The Nazi leader said a loan of 1,500,000 pengoes had been refused his party by a German bank in Vienna because it would be regarded as interference in the Hungarian elections. He therefore abandoned the plan for a loan, Hubay asserted. The chamber, in which Nazi strength has increased as a result of the elections, declared itself satisfied with Count Teleki’s statement.
Meanwhile the trial of 25 Nazis charged with trying to overthrow the State and the Government continued here. The prosecutor said all of them had taken a secret oath to “sacrifice their lives and their fortunes” for the movement and to obey their leader, Major Ferenc Szalassy, who is now serving a prison term.
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