Word: bethlen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jewish). Though Horthy's country had been shorn of its seacoast and had no navy, he still used the title of admiral. As self-styled regent for an unoccupied throne, he ruled until 1944. During the early years of his long reign, under the premiership of Count Stephen Bethlen, Hungary was ruled by what was called an iron paternalism, but the iron gradually became more pronounced than the paternalism. The magnates continued to dominate the land: one-third of Hungary's rich acres was owned by 1,000 wealthy nobles. In 1941 Horthy took his country, crying...