Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...false report and the recent publication of a reproduction of part of the late Emperor Karl's diary have to some extent revived in academic form the peculiar position of Hungary...
...that year the inheritance was claimed by a Habsburg and Hungary was ruled as a part of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867, which set up the Dual Monarchy and gave the country once more a King of its own in the person of the same Habsburg Emperor of Austria. It was little more than a change of form...
...Emperor Karl there undoubtedly existed a warm national affection, but this availed him nothing at the end of the War. Almost without a blow, Hungary became for a few months a Republic under Count Michael Karolyi, although it would be truer to say that Budapest, the capital, became a Republic. Bolshevism succeeded Republicanism and was even shorter lived; for in August, 1919, after a harrowing Rumanian occupation, the Monarchists, led by Admiral Horthy, were once again in power. Horthy was elected Royal Governor, usually translated as Regent. He was invested with some of the royal powers, was empowered to enact...
...from the late Emperor's Diary, published by Karl Werkmann, his private secretary, reproduced by the Italian Corriere della Sera of Milan and reproduced by The Living Age, comes a new story about Horthy's alleged perfidy...
...officer, there is no denying that Horthy was able; he rose rapidly, was transferred to the General Staff, became a naval aide-de-camp to Kaiser and Konig Franz Josef. In the early part of the War, he proved himself as brave and loyal an officer as ever the Emperor had and, when the Germans crushed a mutiny at Cattaro, he proved himself astute enough to take the credit...