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...Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya acts as regent for the kingdom of Hungary because the Allies will not yet allow the people to have what a majority of them almost certainly want, a Habsburg king...
Juarez and Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal kin in Europe, became insane, another victim of the "curse of the Habsburgs," which has bloodied every generation of that ill-starred line with murder and violence...
...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...