Word: bethlen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such revelations together with rumors that Premier Bethlen will now try to give a push to a putsch which would raise up the young Prince Otto of Hapsburg as King of Hungary, provided last week one of the major political sensations of the decade since the World...
Super-scareheads frightened many citizens of Budapest: "CHIEF OF POLICE NADOSSY AND PRINCE WINDISCH-GRAETZ TEARFULLY CONFESS TO COUNTERFEITING 30,000,000,000 FRENCH FRANCS! Possible Fascist Putsch to Set up Archduke Albrecht of Hapsburg as Kaiser of Hungary Nipped by French Detectives! Premier Count Stephen Bethlen Believed Well Pleased at Developments, Which May Discredit His Rival, the Regent of Hungary, Nicholas Horthy...
...royal powers, was empowered to enact the legislation of his Royal Hungarian Government-but for whom was he acting? When Karl was alive, Horthy publicly declared that he was keeping the throne warm for his Monarch. After Karl's death in 1922, both he and his Premier, Count Bethlen, were known to have expressed themselves privately in favor of "King" Otto. But Horthy's love of splendor, his occupation of the Royal Palaces, his insistence upon a regal etiquette, have combined to discredit his intentions...
Premier Count Stephen Bethlen prepared a bill for the reestablishment of the House of Magnates (equivalent of British House of Lords). This new House of Magnates* would differ from the old hereditary legislative chamber. It would consist only of 250 members and only members of the House of Habsburg would have hereditary seats, 36 would be elected (presumably for life) by the Magnate or aristocratic class; the remainder by religious, agricultural, financial, commercial and industrial bodies. In effect, it would be a Senate rather than a House of Aristocrats...
...Then meetings of indignation were held all over the city. Anger grew; and the city became alive with people running this way and that. The Government ordered out the Army to occupy the beautiful Royal Castle, on the right bank of the Danube, and all the State buildings. The Bethlen regime, so used to wobbling, wobbled again...