HUNGARY'S BISMARCK.
Ctwirt Stephen Tissa, ihe Magyar Prime Minister, who wag reputed to have ' 4 stood up to" the Kaiser, demanding assistance in repelling .the Russian blow at Hungary, is known as "Hungary's Bismarck," Three years ago he wae elected Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament in Budapest, which caused the Socialist Union to go on strike in protest, Tisza being a determined opponent of the Socialist claims to universal suffrage. A year later all of bis opponente in Parliament united against aim, the aristocracy Jed by Andrassy, Apponyi, Caroly, and Zichi, in league with the National Labour Party and the Socialists, forming a parliamentary opposition such as no other Prime Minister ever had to face. Tisza. was attacked in pub. lie and private, he was threatened with violence when .he appeared on the streets, and with his political adversaries he fought so many duels that neither he nor any one else remembered how many there had been. His fearlessness ha? carried him through difficulties that woujd have daunted any other man.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 10
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