Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back. The second is backed by those people who openly advocate the return of King Otto to the throne. They say: " Since that is our will and intention, why should we seek to hide it-especially since there is nothing in the Treaty of Trianon to prevent a Habsburg reascending the throne of Hungary?" The third group, including the Government of which Count Bethlen is Premier, unofficially support King Otto, but believe that a regency (with Admiral Horthy as regent) is the only course the country can adopt in view of the anti-Habsburg attitude of the Little Entente. There...
Hungary has a population of 7,840,832, according to the 1921 census. Of these, over 5,000,000 are peasants and almost solidly in favor of a Habsburg King. Recently when Admiral Horthy proposed to make a visit to an agricultural district, the peasants declared that they would be glad to see him, but if he expected them to build a triumphal arch, he would be very disappointed. There was, according to a wizened peasant spokesman, " only one man whom they would delight in so honoring, and his name is King Otto." That typifies their attitude...
...trouble, commemorates the year in which Louis Kossuth established Hungary as an independent state connected with Austria only through the Emperor. A long period of negotiations they started between the Emperor and the Hungarian Diet, which culminated in a declaration of war between the two countries. The House of Habsburg was only saved in this instance by the opposition of the Slavs to the Magyars and the consequent state of civil war. At the end of 1848 the Emperor Franz Josef I ascended the throne on the abdication of Ferdinand I, and early next year the Hungarians were defeated...