NAZI LEADER SENTENCED
INCITEMENT TO REVOLUTION ACTIVITIES IN HUNGARY LONDON, June 2. The Budapest correspondent o£ the Daily Telegraph says that Major Szalasi was convicted of incitement to overthrow the constitution and social system, and was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Both the public prosecutor and Major Szalasi have appealed against the sentence. Major Szalasi told the court that he had no intention of launching a revolution, but hoped to realise his aims legally.
A message received on May 21 stated:—Major Szalasi, the Hungarian Nazi leader, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment after the publication of a pamphlet advocating a plebiscite on the substitution of the Constitution by a Nazi regime.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 15
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