17 NOVEMBER 1939, Page 2

An Arrow Cross Arrest

The arrest of the head of the Arrow Cross Party, Baron Kameny, by the Hungarian Government, and his sentence to seven months' imprisonment, is an event of some import- ance. Some description of this little-known organisation, which is in effect the Hungarian Nazi Party, is given, appropriately enough, in the current issue of tha Imperial Policy Group's Memorandum of Information. The party is, of course, anti-semitic, it stands like every Hungarian party for treaty revision in Hungary's favour, and for land reform. It has been abundantly fed with money from Berlin, and in certain circumstances might be a serious rival to the present Government. But anti-German elements in Hungary are strong, conspicuous among them a picturesque organisation known as " The Ragged Guard," a body of guerillas, ably led, who would, it is said, fight for ten years against German domination. Italy, moreover, is a factor which comes into the picture here—and not on the German side.