Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-02-04


Is that It's decision has been partly
amended" and partly reversed by the
Court of Appeal
There lives In budapest a certain Jos.
eph Marty whose occupation seems to
consist Of throwing bombs at Jewish
meetings aud at foreign diplomatic rep
resentatives He Is even known TO have
murdered people, not ont Of feeling of
patriotic eSuberance alone but for the
far less exalted motive Of personal mon
etary gain.
For the last few years, the Budapest
police have ostensibly busted them.
selves in trying TO trace n gang Of
bomb-throwers-ilnally 1t was discov-
cred that the ringlender of the gang
was no less person than Marty,
prominent member of the Union of
awakening NIagynrs and the secretary
Of one of Its Budapest branches. II was
he who had been responsible for the
bombing of the Liberal Club AT. Elisa
betstadt one of the Budapest suburbs,
as result Of which about n dozen peo-
pie. all Jews were killed. II Is very
probable that the Budapest police
would not have troubled very much
about this. were 1t not discovered that
this same Marty was also responsible
| for placing a bomb AT the French en-
bassy in Budapest. France had to be
given some sort of satisfaction. So
Marty and his gang were put on trial.
The court had a record of Martyrs mum.
erous other crimes before it, and the re.
suit was that he was sentenced to
| death.
This Awakening Magyar had com
mitted in all about thirty murders
without any great qualms Of conscience.
ON the contrary, he told the court that
he was proud that he had not con-
tented himself merely with verbal de
nunciation Of the Jews and the other
enemies of Hungary, hut that he had
been man of action, had killed the
enemies Of Hungary, and thus pre-
vented them from doing more harm to
Hungary
Martyrs counsel, the notorious anti
Semitic. Deputy Leudvai. gave it as his
opinion that the higher court would not
uphold the death sentence on Marty.
He went so far as 10 prophecy that the
| Appeal Court would either acQuit
Marty altogether or at most would
send him to prison for n couple of
months. An appeal was accordingly
lodged and Deputy Leudvai's predic-
tion came true TIL. az al Hnr n
rian Table'-as the Court of Appeals is
styled-has acquitted Marty in regard
to his crimes against the Jews. He has
| in all been sentenced to term of six
years Imprisonment for the bomb
which was thrown at the French en-
bassy. And it is being openly said that
this, TOO, is only a nominal sentence
and that Marty will be releas sed long
before he has served his term.
Isn't Hungary civilized European
country?
Like country, like Jews. A country
with "A low standard of development
has very crudely developed Jewish
population. This is true also of the
| Hungarian Jews. They have been
''Magyarised" TO such an extent that
they have lost all their Jewish pride.
all feeling of being part Of world
Jewry.
| Sometimes one thinks that the Hun
| garian Jews have not little deserved
the prosecutions that they have under
gone these last few years If not all of
them-there still are n few who have
not cut themselves completely off from
| the rest of Jewry-then, at any rate,
their official leaders and representa-
tives.
Take the numerus clausus law which
has compelled several thousands of
Hungarian Jewish students to go ont
| side their native country in order TO
seek the education denied them at home
because they are Jews, and to live
under conditions of poverty and desti-
tuition in the university towns of the
various European countries. They are
suffering materially and morally and
the funds which go TO keep them alive
have TO be contributed by Jews from
all over the world,
The Hungarian Jews are politically
impotent and have shown themselves
unable 10 bring about the Withdrawal
of the numerus clausus law. Nor have
all the protests of the Hungarian OPP
position in Parliament been Of any
avail Similarly no success has at
tended the various efforts which have
been made by several foreign Jewish or
ganizations to induce the Hungarian
gregation and Y. o. Y. Club plans Of n