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...nearly a month the U. S. press has enjoyed a field day reporting the personalities, the plans, the doings and the dress of Britain's King and Queen for the benefit of kingless, queenless Americans. Last week it was the turn of the British press to report on the U. S. for the benefit of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's subjects. English newspapers made a thoroughgoing...
...became Premier of storm-tossed Hungary. After the War, when Hungary was ravaged by Bela Kun's flaming Bolshevism, Count Bethlen was one of the organizers of the French-sponsored aristocratic counterrevolution that exterminated the Communists and eventually established Admiral Horthy as Regent of the kingless Hungarian kingdom...
...guest this time was just about the toughest boss-man in Eastern Europe, His Serene Highness astute old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent of the kingless Kingdom of Hungary. If & when Hitler decides to invade Czechoslovakia, Admiral Horthy as an awestruck friend can play the same part that Mussolini played when Hitler invaded Austria. If he does, the $750,000 Hitler expended last week on the Admiral's entertainment will be well spent...
...different stripe (horizontal). Firmly grasping thousands of both kinds of flags in their damp fists, Budapest school children lined the streets last week all the way from the railroad station across the Danube to the vast pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen and Fascist Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano were the principals...
...reason why Hungary remains a slightly grotesque "kingless kingdom," ruled by His Serene Highness salty old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, is the notoriously high cost of supporting a Habsburg Court. Thousands of Hungarian Legitimists would like to restore "Little Otto," 20-year-old son of their late King Karl, but they know the extravagance of his regal mother Zita, fear she would insist that the State lavishly support dozens of penniless Habsburg archdukes. Last week in ancient Debrecsen, famed today for its tobacco-pipes, sausages and soap, Legitimists staged a monster pro-Otto rally several times disturbed by anti...