Note 52 — Chapter X · HUNGARY’S ATTITUDE TO-DAY

In a “manifesto” published during the winter of 1921-1922, Hejjas and his fellow-ruffian Baron Pronay speak of the work of the National Assembly as “Two years of cockcrowing” in which “traitors and perjurers have talked the loudest.” The Manifesto goes on to say: “Till now we have watched with clenched fist the game of the National Assembly, though anger has choked us. Yet amid the sighs of our starving frost-pinched women and half-naked children we have proved that we too desire order—the Christian order. But we have waited long enough. We mean now to enter on paths of deeds.”