Word: franchet
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...with the Allies. Karolyi either surrounded himself, or, more probably was surrounded, by a group of disreputable Hungarians and Jews. It appears that his best defense is that he was the tool of these people. At any rate, when Karolyi and some of his ministers appeared before General Franchet d'Esperey at Belgrade to negotiate armistice terms, the Allied Generalissimo looked scornfully at them and said: "Vous etes juifs?" Turning to Karolyi he said: "Vous etes tombes si bas?" Then turning on his heel he left them, declining to negotiate terms of an armistice for Hungary. That...