The Hungarian Government is much concerned over the fact that Frederick Jowett has been appointed Minister of Public Works in the British Cabinet. The discomfiture is a result of the fact that Mr. Jowett, who was in Hungary a few years ago to investigate the White Terror and the assassination of hundreds of Jews and Socialists, refused to shake hands with Regant Horthy, in spite of the cordial manner in which the latter received the
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