Ex-Premier Stephen Bethlen was loudly applauded today by the Lower Chamber’s electoral committee when he warned that emulation of Germany’s anti-Jewish program would spell disaster for Hungary.
Declaring victory of the rightist extremists would make the Jewish question the biggest political issue, Count Bethlen asserted that solution of the Jewish question on the lines of the German system would cause the economic and financial collapse of Hungary, which would not be able to maintain its financial and economic basis for a single day.
He warned landowners and the intelligentsia who were flirting with Nazism that they would be the first to be utterly ruined. He declared that adoption of the German system would mean that Hungary would become a slave of Germany and her independence in foreign affairs would be ended.
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