ROYAL WELCOME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 5

ROYAL WELCOME

HUNGARIAN REGENT FETED LN GERMANY EXPECTATION OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS. FRIENDSHIP OF COUNTRIES EMPHASISED. By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. LONDON, August 22. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that the Reich capital was decorated with the same lavishness as was shown for Mussolini’s visit last November when Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary, arrived for his official visit yesterday. This is held to indicate an expectation of important political consequences, especially in view of the presence with Admiral Horthy of the Hungarian Foreign Minister, M. de Kanya, and the War Minister, General Dermacz, together with a large military and diplomatic staff. Herr Hitler will meet Admiral Horthy at Kiel, where they will witness the German naval manoeuvres aboard the Fuehrer’s yacht. ■Admiral Horthy’s journey through Austria was most impressive and no monarch of former times had a more royal welcome. Every railway station through which he passed was decorated. The Vienna terminus was a bower of flowers and bunting, and a choir cT 2000 boys and girls chorussed the German and Hungarian anthems. Speeches at a banquet in Vienna emphasised the close and traditional friendship which had existed between Hungary and Germany for centuries.