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Bewildered patriots wondered whom to believe, last week, when Hungary's two foremost Counts and statesmen made public and opposite answers to a vital question: "Is or is not the Archduke Otto of Habsburg now King of Hungary, since he has come of age?" (TIME...
...immemorial right of the Habsburg Dynasty the eldest living male descendant of our late King Karl became King of Hungary when he [Archduke Otto] achieved the age of majority...
...expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
...asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King Karl, reached his age of majority...
...Since practically every Hungarian is a royalist, the perennial squabble between Budapest politicians is over whether to elect a king or to recognize the legitimate claim of Prince Otto of Habsburg. Last week legitimist Hungarians were wroth to the point of oaths and tears because Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen has just appointed the leader of the electionists, Herr Julius Gombos, to be Under Secretary...