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Saying that he hoped to see the royal regime re-established before his death, Count Albert Apponyi, (pronounced Ar'-pan-yee) 81, Grand Old Man of Hungary, said to pressmen at Geneva...
Apponyi Albert Grof (which is the Hungarian way of saying Count Albert Apponyi) has been a life-long monarchist. Born in 1846, two years before the famed Kossuth revolution, he was closely identified with the liberal Kossuth and Deak parties, although his policies while in office were not always liberal according to Anglo-Saxon standards. And throughout his 55 years of public service he has upheld the monarchical principle and latterly the Habsburg dynasty...
Once, before the War, Count Apponyi visited the U. S., receiving a great ovation. And once after...
...perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
Twice in 1921 the late onetime Emperor Karl (King Karl IV of Hungary) attempted to regain his Hungarian throne; each time he was thwarted: the Little Entente powers, by threatening armed intervention, forced Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of Hungary, and his able Premier, Count Stephan Bethlen, to oppose his ill-advised return and to hand him and Empress Zita over to the British, who exiled him to Funchal on the Island of Madeira, where he died on April 1, 1922, of pneumonia...