DWARFS' DEMANDS
DEFENCE UNION FORMED LILLIPUTIAN CONGRESS -.A TALL ORDER United Press Association—By Electrio Tele- j trapb—Copyright. (Eeceived March 7, 11 a.m.) BUDAPEST, March 6. With a leader 30 inches high, 261 dwarfs of Hungary, 30 of whom prove dwarf blood from a materual grandmother, have formed a defence union and drawn up, a programme demanding a law forbidding marriage between dwarfs and normal persons; the provision of houses with a minimum height of 9 feet and a proportionately reduced cost; half fares on trains and trams and in cinemas and theatres, and a compulsory supply of ready-made clothes by tailors. The union estimates the world's dwarf population at 10,000, and has summoned an' International Lilliputian Congress for 1935.
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 9
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119DWARFS' DEMANDS Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 9
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