DWARFS IN HUNGARY
DEFENCE UNION FORMED PROGRAMME OF DEMANDS BUDAPEST. March G With a leader 30 inches high, 261 dwarfs in Hungary, 50 of whom can trace their dwarf blood from t their maternal grandmothers, have formed a defence union. They have drawn up a programme demanding a law forbidding marriage between dwarfs and normal persons, the provision of houses of a minimum height of nine feet, and at a proportionately reduced cost, half fares on trains and trams, half rates for admission to cinemas and theatres, and a compulsory supply of ready-made clothes by the Tailors' Union. Estimates place the world's dwarf population at 10,000. An International Lilliputian Congress has been summoned for 1935.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21744, 8 March 1934, Page 9
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