Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most aristocratic names in Hungary have been befouled by political scandal, as princes, bishops and even the chief of police of Budapest have been implicated one by one in a gigantic plot to forge 30 billion French francs and expend them in financing the return by violence of the Habsburg dynasty to Hungary (TIME...
Thus, there began at Budapest, last week, a trial as seemingly nonsensical as that of Alice in Wonderland: the trial of those Gargantuan Hungarians who counterfeited 30,000,000,000 French francs, allegedly with intent to finance a putsch which would overthrow the present Hungarian Regency* and seat a Habsburg again upon the Hungarian Throne. (TIME...
...Admiral Nicholas Horthy is Regent for this "kingless kingdom." Almost certainly a majority of the multi-national citizens of what is now Hungary look up to the House of Habsburg as the one authority under which they have ever been peaceably united. France and her allies have stood guard sleeplessly since the War, lest "the heir apparent," Prince Otto of Habsburg (still a child and residing in Spain with his mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary), be "restored," or the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg seize the throne...
...this state of affairs is only temporary. For 1,000 years, Hungary has been a monarchy. Until 1526, when the Turks won the all-important Battle of Mahacs, Hungary had had a national King, but in 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...
Premier Count Stephen Bethlen prepared a bill for the reestablishment of the House of Magnates (equivalent of British House of Lords). This new House of Magnates* would differ from the old hereditary legislative chamber. It would consist only of 250 members and only members of the House of Habsburg would have hereditary seats, 36 would be elected (presumably for life) by the Magnate or aristocratic class; the remainder by religious, agricultural, financial, commercial and industrial bodies. In effect, it would be a Senate rather than a House of Aristocrats...