Word: karolyis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last House of Magnates, together with the House of Commons, was abolished in 1918 by President Count Michael Karolyi, who erected in its place the present National Assembly...
...Budapest, the Hungarian Supreme Court confirmed the finding of a lower court-namely, that Count Michael Karolyi (TIME, July 16, 1923) was guilty of high treason (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924). The Supreme Court also up- held the previous sentence of confiscation of all his personal and entailed property, amounting to many millions of dollars. All that was allowed from the estate, before it became State property was $42,000 for legal fees to Karolyi's attorney. The report on the findings of the Supreme Court was obviously incomplete ; no mention was made of the Count's defense that...
Without any question Count Karolyi is, in the light of unbiased legal evidence, guilty of high treason. Nothing is surer, however, that he acted with the best of intentions; nothing more certain than that he was always the good friend of the Allies and that he ought, therefore, according to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, to be immune from the sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court. But in Hungary, as in most other places, courts of justice are established to carry out the letter and spirit of the law without reference to mitigating sentimental evidence...
...Countess Karolyi who is visiting Boston on a lecture tour, will be the guest of Professor and Mrs. I. L. Winter for the afternoon, and they hope to bring her to the Tea later...
...Countess Karolyi has been exiled from her country ever since her husband's government was overthrown by the Bela Kun Bolshevik regime, which in turn was succeeded by the reactionary. White Terror of Admiral Horthy. At present she is touring the United States giving lectures on conditions in Hungary...