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Word: bethlen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Benito Mussolini signed a peace treaty last week which gravely imperils the peace of the Balkans. In the suave setting of his great office in the Palazzo Chigi he staged the overture by welcoming and delicately flattering a poetess, the Countess Bethlen, wife of Hungarian Premier Count Stephen Bethlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poem, Treaty | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poem, Treaty | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poem, Treaty | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Count that Il Duce will strive to bring France and Britain round to permitting the restoration of a Habsburg king in Hungary, something Hungarians ardently desire (TIME, Nov. 29, Jan. 24). Since the time is not ripe for airing that project, however, all that Il Duce gave Count Bethlen last week by way of a "bonus" in black and white was an Italian note announcing that the Government of Italy will take steps to arrange with the Government of Jugoslavia for the reduced duty passage through Jugoslavia of Hungarian goods to and from the Italian port of Flume. With Jugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poem, Treaty | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Root and practically every important statesman of Europe have written articles for Foreign Affairs - not the usual thoughtful "hand-out" monographs. The list of contributors includes Statesmen Herriot, Stresemann, Vandervelde, Bethlen, Masaryk, Poincare, Benes, etc. Foreign Affaires is not published for profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wilson | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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