SHOP OR WIFE?
AN UNUSUAL DILEMMA A Budapest ministry Is engaged in searching for a means by which Ibrahim Pehlivanovics, a Bosnian Mussulman, may become a Hungarian subject. without renouncing one of the two wives which his religion permitted him to marry. Forty years ago Ibrahim, who is a carpet-maker, came to Budapest and began to save money. As Bosnia formed part of the Dual-Monarchy. Ibrahim served his three years in a Bosnian regiment, and then returned to his home and married tw'o girls. He brought his two wives to Budapest and gradually amassed a comfortable fortune; after which lie bought a small estate in Transylvania. At the outbreak of war, with two sons, he joined the army, and earned numerous decorations. After the Rumanian invasion of Hungary, and the confiscation of his estate, Ibrahim —who had become entirely Hungarian and had almost forgotten his mother tongue—-brought his wives and children to Budapest and began life from the beginning again. Again bis skill as a carpet-maker enabled him to save money.
He bought a house in Buda and set up a weaver’s shop, only to discover that , to conduct his shop he must become a Hungarian citizen, and renounce one of his two xtfives. His appeals to the authorities to allow him to retain the two helpmates who had so faithfully supported him in his trials have been so pathetic that the matter may possibly be arranged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1046, 9 August 1930, Page 19
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237SHOP OR WIFE? Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1046, 9 August 1930, Page 19
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