Magyar Points

In any fair contest to pick the blackest reactionaries in all Europe, Hungary's picturesque League of Awakened Magyars would win easily by several leopard skins-- which Magyar nobles wear on state occasions slung across their hereditary, gold-frogged uniforms.

Abruptly last week the Awakened Magyars published a Program of 46 points. "Abolition of the so-called liberal rights now existing in Hungary," they clarioned, "must be followed by a return to the medieval structure of Hungarian public life!"

First step would be to freeze all Hungarians "each in the class to which he rightly belongs." Jews would be definitely classed apart, gentiles classed according to occupation or hereditary rank. "As in medieval times no Hungarian would be permitted to change his class or marry a woman of another class except by special dispensation of the State."

Hungarians, though well aware that the Awakened Magyars may stampede Hungarian Nazi elements into supporting their program, mocked openly last week at Awakened Magyar Point 16.

Under Point 16 every Hungarian girl would be compelled to put on at 12 years of age the sort of iron girdle which jealous Hungarian knights used to lock around their ladies before riding off to the Crusades. In this 20th Century, proposed the Awakened Magyars, "The key to each girl's girdle is to be kept by her father or other competent authority until her marriage contract is signed, when it is to be delivered to the husband."

Under Awakened Magyar Point 20 every wedded couple would be expected to have a minimum of five children. For every child lacking after a statutory number of years, the couples' basic income tax would be upped 50%. Thus a childless couple would pay 350 pengoes of income tax for every 100 pengoes paid by a husband and wife of the same income with five children.

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