The cabinet crisis in Hungary was viewed here today as another warning to Germany that its drive eastward would not go unresisted. Premier Bela Imredy, leading Hungary into the German orbit, was abandoned by most of his supporters and was forced to step down. Like the preceding Rumanian and Yugoslavian cabinet crises, the events today in Hungary reveal sharp and powerful resistance to the Reich’s “Drang nach Osten.”
It was even rumored in diplomatic circles here that Germany might react vigorously to these developments. The anti-Jewish law scheduled to come before the Hungarian Parliament was of Nazi inspiration. It was approved by Berlin not only as an extension of Nazi doctrines, but also because it decapitated Hungaran industry in which Jews play a prime role. Under its provisions Hungary would become a purely agricultural country in accordance with the Danubian reorganization planned by the Reich with an eye exclusively to German needs.
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