Eastern Europe and the Axis The visit to Berlin this
week of Count Czaky, the Hun- garian Foreign Minister, signalises yet another success for German policy in Eastern Europe. Last week Hungary announced her decision to join the anti-Comintern Pact, and thus indicated that, temporarily at least, she had surrendered her ambition for a common frontier with Poland and accepted the lead of Germany. At the same time the Prime Minister, Dr. Imredy, has launched a new national move- ment on Nazi lines and is considering the formation of a new totalitarian party. From the Rome end of the axis, approaches are being made to Jugoslavia, intended to bring her also into the anti-Comintem pact. These successes for German policy do not, however, carry the assent of the populations involved in Jugoslavia, and in Poland there is resistance to the policy of abandoning . the democratic Powers; while in Hungary a bitter struggle against Dr. Imredy's " reforms " is being carried on by the Opposition under Count Bethlen and Dr. Eckhardt. It is, indeed, the existence of opposition which makes it a natural corollary of co-operation with Germany in foreign policy that totalitarian " reforms " should be introduced at home. Hungary will not be the last example of that.
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