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Count Michael Karolyi, ex-Premier, ex-President of Hungary and now exile,* came to the U. S. from England a few weeks ago to attend at the bedside of his wife, who was ill of typhoid fever. It became known that in obtaining a visa for his passport, he had promised not to discuss political questions in public during his visit. Meanwhile, the U. S. Hungarian press began to attack him, but he could make no answer. Reporters questioned him and he only made reply: "By my agreement with the State Department, I may not receive reporters...
...visas. A consul has a right to refuse a visa to anyone likely to come into conflict with the laws of the U. S?as, for example, a person who might advocate overthrow of the U. S. Government or the practice of polygamy. It is very dubius whether Count Karolyi, unmuzzled, would do such things...
...Emperor Karl there undoubtedly existed a warm national affection, but this availed him nothing at the end of the War. Almost without a blow, Hungary became for a few months a Republic under Count Michael Karolyi, although it would be truer to say that Budapest, the capital, became a Republic. Bolshevism succeeded Republicanism and was even shorter lived; for in August, 1919, after a harrowing Rumanian occupation, the Monarchists, led by Admiral Horthy, were once again in power. Horthy was elected Royal Governor, usually translated as Regent. He was invested with some of the royal powers, was empowered to enact...
...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...
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...