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General Goemboes Warns Against Swastika Use

September 13, 1933
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A warning against the significance of the swastika for Hungary, was issued yesterday by the Hungarian Premier, General Julius Goemboes, on the occasion of the inauguration of the flag of the United Party. General Goemboes declared. “These undesirable foreign politics are unsuited to the Hungarian soul.”

Franz K. Fischer, Minister of the Interior, declared that the Hungarian authorities had ordered a fine of two hundred pengoe for anyone carrying the swastika sign, even if they were Hungarian Germans.

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