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manufactured goods would be agreed upon in some stable foreign currency, and the Czechoslovak manufacturer would receive payment for the work performed by him in Czechoslovak crowns.

Such an organization seems to present the only practical scheme to secure materials needed for the Bohemian glove industry upon terms that are likely to attract the foreign capitalist.

The internal affairs of the Magyars State are far from being settled and stabilized. The appointment of the new Government of M. Simonyi Semadam caused the outbreak of the old feud between the former Premier M. Huszar and General Stephen Friedrich, who up to the downfall of the Habsburgs was quite an unknown personage, and at present is the “strong” man of the Magyars. The influence and power of General Friedrich greatly displeases the Magyar Regent Horthy who accuses him of having instigated the murder of Count Tisza, the true facts about which are still a mystery. It is characteristic of the Magyar conditions that when M. Kovacs, the man entrusted with instituting legal proceeding in connection with murder of Count Tisza, had collected all the documentary evidence against General Friedrich, he was murdered and his documentary evidence disappeared. How this happened only General Friedrich’s “boys” could tell.

Hardly anywhere are there so many political parties and groups as in Hungary. A special feature of Budapest are its political clubs, each of them representing a political group or party. For the time being the leading political party is that of the Christian Socialists. This party is again divided into three groups, fighting for ministerial posts. With the Government of M. Simonyi Semadam there is great dissatisfaction among the socalled Christian Socialists. Besides the Christian Socialists there are peasant parties and other groups, while the Social Democrats are not recognized as a constitutional party.

The Magyar army is divided between two military commanders. The part of the army quartered in Debreczin follows General Friedrich, while that quartered in Szegedin follows the regent Horthy. Both these armies are on their own account requisitioning foodstuffs from the Magyar peasants who were a few weeks ago “liberated” from the Rumanian occupation. According to “Becsi Magyar Ujsag” General Friedrich recently declared that if things will not develop according to his schemes, he will march at the head of his army from Debreczin to Budapest and establish order there.

The Magyars refuse to sign the peace treaty which reduces their State to the area in which the Magyars preponderate, and the Magyar papers violently attack the Allies.

In the meantime they are continuing their agitation in the neighbouring countries, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. A correspondent returning from Budapest states in the Czech paper Tribuna that the Magyars are supplying travellers to Czechoslovakia with specially prepared pamphlets and leaflets in which they call upon the Slovak population to separate themselves from the Czechs and to declare strikes. The Czechs are accused of closing churches and favouring the Jews. On the other hand, the Magyar State is pictured in the brightest colors and the Slovaks are asked to join it.

It is, however, in the interest of the Magyars themselves as well as of the Allies that the Peace Treaty with Hungary should be signed without delay. Unless the Peace Treaty with the Magyars is signed, there will be a continuation and increase of chaos and uncertainty which are the main causes of the economic misery in Central Europe, for none of Hungary’s neighbors can peacefully settle down to work, as long as the Magyars threaten aggression.

In the March issue an article appeared entititled “Masaryk’s Seventieth Birthday” under the name of Aleš Brož. This article was not written by Mr. Brož and was attributed to him by a misapprehension.