National Interactions: Hungarians as Minorities and Changes in the Definition of Who Is Hungarian in the 1930s (original) (raw)
2014, Influences, Pressures Pro and Con, and Opportunities. Studies on Political Interactions in and Involving Hungary in the Twentieth Century
Offi ce, felt that using the name of a prime minister would call too much attention to it on the part of Romania's intelligence and counter-intelligence services. Th is they would have preferred to avoid, since the Hostel/College, which in part did operate as a place where students lived, but did not really off er accommodations to foreigners in general, only to ethnic Hungarians coming from Romania.
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