Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nine-tenths of the Hungarian people, including, myself, would gladly welcome the return to a monarchy. Budapest would receive our exiled Queen and Prince Otto as our King with enthusiasm, but the big European powers object to this natural and rational solution of the simple dynastic problem...
Apponyi Albert Grof (which is the Hungarian way of saying Count Albert Apponyi) has been a life-long monarchist. Born in 1846, two years before the famed Kossuth revolution, he was closely identified with the liberal Kossuth and Deak parties, although his policies while in office were not always liberal according to Anglo-Saxon standards. And throughout his 55 years of public service he has upheld the monarchical principle and latterly the Habsburg dynasty...
...figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...probably true that nine-tenths of the Hungarian race favors the return of the Habsburg dynasty, not so much because it has any special love for that Royal House as because the return of the Royal House has been forbidden and its members proscribed by the Allies, particularly by the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugo-slavia...
...Rumania, in conformity with the peace treaty, may "retain and liquidate" the property of a Hungarian who has voted for Hungarian citizenship, provided that his property is situated in territory formerly owned by Hungary...