Word: counts
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...member of the League, and Great Britain have agreed to refer the delimitation of the northern frontier of Mesopotamia to the Council of the League. The Council, following what is becomiing a common practice, has referred the technical question to a small committee presided over by Count Teleki, an ex-Prime Minister of Hungary, which will make an inquiry on the spot and report to the Council. I am glad to say that both countries have already agreed to accept the decision of the Council, whatever it may be-a good example of the growing power of the new spirit...
...supply. If we abandon the juridical plane and look oil the matter from the higher view of cooperation and fairness, strict justice would seem to demand a general pooling of War expenditures and their allotment among the allied States proportionately to the riches of each one, and without taking count of the particular engagements which the necessities of the moment imposed. Thus only would be realized an equality among all in the total of sacrifices...
...chief members of the Commission : Herr Wirsen, Swedish diplomat; Count Paul Teleki, former Premier of Hungary; Colonel Poulis, retired Belgian Army officer...
...Budapest, the Hungarian Supreme Court confirmed the finding of a lower court-namely, that Count Michael Karolyi (TIME, July 16, 1923) was guilty of high treason (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924). The Supreme Court also up- held the previous sentence of confiscation of all his personal and entailed property, amounting to many millions of dollars. All that was allowed from the estate, before it became State property was $42,000 for legal fees to Karolyi's attorney. The report on the findings of the Supreme Court was obviously incomplete ; no mention was made of the Count's defense that...
Without any question Count Karolyi is, in the light of unbiased legal evidence, guilty of high treason. Nothing is surer, however, that he acted with the best of intentions; nothing more certain than that he was always the good friend of the Allies and that he ought, therefore, according to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, to be immune from the sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court. But in Hungary, as in most other places, courts of justice are established to carry out the letter and spirit of the law without reference to mitigating sentimental evidence...