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...Because of my ill health, and in view of changed circumstances, it has been necessary for the present Government to resign." With this brief announcement Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister of Hungary, gave up the power he has wielded for ten years and prepared to sun his spare ribs on the shores of Margaret Island, play tennis and polo and otherwise enjoy himself. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, accepted the resignation and immediately called grey-chinned Count Julius Karolyi to form another Cabinet. The air darkened with rumors...
...editors agreed last week that Hungary's financial plight, the closing of her banks at the time of the German crash, the government's emergency decrees to prevent the exporting of money, were the basis of Count Bethlen's troubles. Matters grew acute some weeks ago when Count Bethlen, faced by a growing opposition among the deputies, appointed, before Parliament adjourned, a committee of 33 to help him govern the country by decree...
Despite denials from Count Bethlen himself, the story persisted in Budapest that he had been forced out by the French...
There were many new Socialist members, but more important from Count Bethlen's point of view was an ardent royalist, a beautiful dark-haired girl, one of the few women in Hungary's Parliament, the Princess Klara Odescalchi. For years the Princess Klara has been a fanatical opponent of Count Bethlen who, she believes, has persistently refused to allow the enthronement of 18-year-old Archduke Otto upon the vacant throne of Hungary. What makes her a dangerous opponent is that she is wealthy and can use her wealth to great political advantage. She is intelligent...
Disregarding what damage Princess Odescalchi and the other Opposition deputies may do in the absence of Parliament. Count Bethlen and his Cabinet struggled last week with emergency decrees...