Word: apponyi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto is King!" proclaimed Count Albert Apponyi, venerable and honored representative of Hungary before the League of Nations. As President of the Legitimist Party the Count issued this further statement...
Exactly the opposite view was taken by Count Stephen Bethlen, dictator and Prime Minister of Hungary, who has repeatedly accredited Count Apponyi to the League...
Once, before the War, Count Apponyi visited the U. S., receiving a great ovation. And once after...
...with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
These events were bitter pills for the Hungarian monarchists. Legitimists flocked to the Opposition; moderates became reactionaries; even Socialists were swayed to monarchism; the onetime Emperor became almost a martyr and his little son, "King" Otto, became a national idol. Count Albert Apponyi was one of the last Hungarian statesmen to see his rightful King alive. Said he once: "I shall never forget the shame of visiting His Majesty at the abbey at Tihany [where he was temporarily imprisoned by Hungarian troops prior to his delivery to the British]. If I had never been a monarchist before, I should have...