Word: karolyis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rosika Schwimmer was born in Hungary in 1877. She became famed as a pacifist. Her eloquence induced Henry Ford to undertake his Peace-Ship trip in 1915. Once, under Count Karolyi's regime (1919) she was Hungary's minister to Switzerland. Eight years ago she settled permanently in the U. S., set up residence in Illinois. Two years ago she applied for U. S. citizenship, Question 22 of the application asks if the applicant, as a citizen, would bear arms in defense...
Count Michael Karolyi, first President of Hungary, for three years barred from this country because of his socialistic tendencies, arrived on the liner Cristobal Colon, en route from Mexico to Spain. He was astounded to learn that a technicality of the immigration laws allowed him 60 hours ashore. "Another of those quaint American paradoxes," said he. "I had expected to be chained to the Statue of Liberty...
Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as a pauper or bankrupt, "on the grounds that Count Karolyi continues to reside in such expensive capitals as Paris, London and New York...
...Nagy added from Budapest that the Hungarian Courts have refused to revise their verdict that Count Karolyi is guilty of High Treason in surrendering Hungary to the Allies, in the last days of the War, although General Erich von Ludendorff of Germany and President Masaryk...
Czechoslovakia have both furnished statements to Dr. Nagy that, in their expert and high opinions, "the armistice signed by Count Karolyi with the Allies was inevitable...