László’s Links to Interwar Hungary’s Extreme Right

By World War II, László had begun contributing to national socialist daily papers. He was tasked with publishing cheerful propaganda designed to improve his readers’ mood and sense of well-being. This chap-ter draws attention to the fact that László’s extreme-right interpretations of Hungarian imperialist ideology and the civilizing mission associated with it were at least part of the reasoning that allowed him to reconcile himself with national-socialist thought. He was conscious of Hungary’s hard turn to the right and the increasingly strict political supervision of the country’s journalism, and thus concluded that his livelihood depended on his ability to make connections with the owners of the country’s national socialist dailies.