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Show EXECUTIONS AT ' BllDAPESTDENIED 'City Outwardly Quiet But Nationalization of Property Continues to Progress. PEOPLE UNDER TENSION Wealthy Young Women Eager to Marry Americans to Save Fortunes. VIENNA. Wednesday. April 16. ( By the Associated Press) Reports of the I executions at Budapest of Count Mi- hael Karolyi. Archduke Joseph and others 'are untrue. The city continues outwardly quiet with progress being made toward the nationalization of property, it is estimated there are w- only twenty naturalized Americans and -American wives of Hungarians in Hungary. Count Karolyi find-- Socialism a dif-licult dif-licult program and was much down- cast when here. His despondency v ,( caused partly because he was being restricted in his expenditures. In former for-mer times he was accustomed to spending a million crowns annually. Count Karolyi'.s frame of mind is characteristic of all person- in Hun-! ary who have been apprehensive for weeks as to what -would happen next. 'It is a common thing to sec a part) of men and women walking along the streets or promenades or sitting in fates and to see one woman burst into trars and then laughingly wipe her eyes. Thus is shown the tension under which people are living Avho have lost all their property and the hope that came with the end of the" W& v,ar Women Eager to Marry Americans Foreigners, especially Americans, are receiving attractive marriage proposals pro-posals from families of wealthy yottnc v.onien who expect by this mi ans to: save something from the wreck of 'heir fortunes because of tho fact that, foreign property will be exempted from nationalization. Women who niarry foreigners will be enabled to travel freely over the frontiers with Hieir families. There is a disposition on the part of the Government, however, how-ever, to allow middle elass Huugar-j lans to leave, provided they do not take property wtth them. Many in Abject Poverty The condition of many Hungarians who have fled to Vienna is one of ab-jert ab-jert poverty. Count Alexander Bsteri hazy, who lost his son in the war and who was with former Emperor Charles until ihe latter went to Switzerland is finding means of subsistence bj selling furniture in his house here. There has been a recent -exchange of visits by officials of Hungary and i German -Austria Minister of " War JBoehra and Heir Pogany of the Sun I garian foreign office arc here from Budapest with an army of clerks, ostensibly os-tensibly to liquidate thV affairs of the i two governments. |