Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Count Apponyi first outlined the conditions under which the Hungarian nation came into existence. Owing to its geographical position, Hungary is the gateway between the East and West, a gateway which demands a firm hand to keep it closed. Many governments had been built up and had given way before the incursions of stronger races. Finally, the forefathers of the present inhabitants settled in there and became Western Christians. After a long invasion the Turks were driven out, and a firm buffer protected the West from the East. The preservation of Hungary thus brought about has been most remarkable...
...however, having equal political rights, may develop their own characteristics as far as geographical conditions allow. They may use their native tongues in conducting city and country affairs, and, in varying degrees, in the schools. There are three kinds of schools: state, parochial, and denominational. In the state schools Hungarian is the official language, although religious teaching is conducted in the native tongue, and from two to four hours are devoted to it during the week. In the parochial and denominational schools, which constitute an enormous majority of 14,000 out of 17,000, the language to be taught...
...LECTURE. "Some Aspects of the Constitutional Growth of Hungary and her Relationship with Austria," with remarks on the Peace Movement. Count Albert Apponyl, Royal Hungarian Minister of Public Education. Emerson...
...past five years Count Apponyl has been Royal Hungarian Minister of Public Education. Since 1872 he has been a member of the House of Commons of Hungary and from 1902 to 1904 served as Speaker of that House. As a member of the House he has spent almost his whole career in the Opposition...
Count Apponyl is a recognized authority on Hungarian constitutional law and has contributed many articles on that subject to Hungarian, French, German, English, and American magazines. In recent lectures and in interviews for the papers Count Apponyl has advocated the Universal Peace Movement and in nearly all his speeches in this country has tried to arouse sentiment in its favor. Although Count Apponyl will take as his specific topic Hungary and her relationship with Austria, he will confine his address largely to the discussion of universal peace. The lecture will be open only to members of the University...