Word: kingless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kingless Kingdom of Hungary is still a country of great landed estates in the hands of a few very wealthy men. Far more than cash does the ownership of even a few acres of land bring prestige to a Hungarian peasant. "Land hunger," greed to increase their holdings by hook or crook, is a besetting vice of the Magyar. Fear lest their acres should have to be subdivided is one reason why Hungarian landowners seldom have more than one child. Tenant farmers are notably more prolific...
...Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
Thus spoke Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, last week, in Hungary's great Gothic House of Parliament beside the Danube at Budapest. The Count, an inflexible and secretive dictator, had just been asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King...
Last week Hungarians honored their new Duke Primate as perhaps subordinate in rank only to Regent Nicholas Horthy of the kingless kingdom of Hungary. The newly exalted Primate is humble of origin, has two brothers who are still village potters, as was his father...
...first possible opportunity they will pass another law; but whether that law will restore Otto to his royal rights, proclaim his popular cousin (Albrecht) king or allow the National Assembly to elect whomsoever it pleases, nobody can say. All that Hungarians are conscious of is that their "Kingless Kingdom on the Danube" is an anomaly that, for political reasons, must soon be decided one way or the other...