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...Mayor of Budapest. Dr. Eugene Sipocz was one of some 500 distinguished Hungarian "Kossuth Pilgrims" who landed at Manhattan, last week, led by Baron Sigmund de Perenyi, a onetime Hungarian Minister of Interior...
They came to dedicate and present to the city of New York a monument commemorating that titanic hero, Lajos (Louis) Kossuth (1802-94). For a day Manhattan rang with speeches fervently recalling how Kossuth proclaimed the independence of Hungary and became Dictator in 1848, only to see his fatherland reconquered within a twelve-month by Austro-Russian troops supporting the Austrian Boy-Emperor Franz Josef, then a stripling of 19. The fact that in 1851 Kossuth was brought to Manhattan on a U. S. man-of-war and honored as a supreme apostle of Liberty gave point to the dedication...
Apponyi Albert Grof (which is the Hungarian way of saying Count Albert Apponyi) has been a life-long monarchist. Born in 1846, two years before the famed Kossuth revolution, he was closely identified with the liberal Kossuth and Deak parties, although his policies while in office were not always liberal according to Anglo-Saxon standards. And throughout his 55 years of public service he has upheld the monarchical principle and latterly the Habsburg dynasty...
Nineteen banks closed in Palo Alto and Kossuth counties, Iowa; another string closed in Clay county, Iowa; there followed the suspension of the Clarinda (Iowa) National Bank. Tellers, bookkeepers and businessmen canvassed the countryside to persuade depositors to leave their money in the embarrassed banks...
...Prince is "a descendant of the Holy Roman Emperors," a Hapsburg, and a grandson of Feldmarschall Alfred Windisch-Graetz who put down the Kossuth revolution of 1848. Once he was the intimate adviser of the ill-fated Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary (1915-1918), and he is the present owner of the famed Eleventh Century castle at Saros-Patak. He is well known as "the most notorious titled gambler in Budapest," and is an avowed Fascist champion of the Archduke Albrecht as King of Hungary. The French detectives ferreted into his affairs excitedly...