“The high point of Ilona’s revolutionary zeal was her purported attempt/plan to assassinate the Hungarian Prime Minister, István Tisza, during the interwar period. She apparently got around to purchasing the gun and she had it in her handbag and was ready to do the deed but, on the day, and by some accounts on the hour, she overheard from a paperboy that the Prime Minister was due to resign. This rendered the assassination attempt redundant.”
“There’s another story,” adds Matthew, “where she apparently travelled all the way by train from Moscow to Vienna with a toothpaste tube of stolen diamonds that she was using to bankroll the Austrian communists in their fight against fascism.”