Note 54 — Chapter X · HUNGARY’S ATTITUDE TO-DAY

At the time of going to press the Budapest Parliament is about to consider two Bills introduced by the Government. The first deals with Public Order, and, among other things, provides for the internment in “Labour Institutes” of any person who by his political tendencies may prove obnoxious to the authorities. The second deals with Military Taxation, and ordains that every male Hungarian subject between the ages of 20 and 31 shall be liable to a poll-tax, unless he enrols himself in the army, the gendarmerie, the police or the customs or forestry services. This Bill is thus a thinly veiled measure of conscription, and is in any case contrary to the provisions of the Treaty of Trianon.