Hundreds of arrests have been made here and in several other towns in Hungary of leaders of the White Terrorist antisemitic organisation, the Awakening Magyars, following the discovery of a plot to carry out a putsch tonight, among the activities of which would have been a series of anti-Jewish outrages, including the devastation of synagogues.
The Government is keeping the details of the plot secret. It has been rumoured that the putsch was intended to restore the Monarchy, by putting the Archduke Otto, the son of the ex-Emperor Karl, on the throne, but an official statement has been issued denying that the plot was Royalist.
Among the arrested persons are also allvery large number of Jews, belonging to prominent Jewish families with Royalist leanings, and especially baptised members of some of the wealthy ennobled Hungarian Jewish families.
Nearly all the descendants of Hungarian Jews who were ennobled are now Christians, and some of them are identified with antisemitic activities, it has been stated. Only the Barons Kohner, Wolfner and Dirsziay have remained Jews. the descendants of Baron Kornfeld, once Vice-President of the Budapest Jewish Community, and the descendants of Baron Drosdy are said to have contributed millions for Catholic conversionist activity among the Jews.
In 1929 there was a storm in Hungary over the revelations made in a so-called “Jewish Lexicon” published in Budapest, giving the names of prominent persons who are of Jewish blood, including a great many holding important positions in the antisemitic organisations.
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