Word: monarchistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
These events were bitter pills for the Hungarian monarchists. Legitimists flocked to the Opposition; moderates became reactionaries; even Socialists were swayed to monarchism; the onetime Emperor became almost a martyr and his little son, "King" Otto, became a national idol. Count Albert Apponyi was one of the last Hungarian statesmen to see his rightful King alive. Said he once: "I shall never forget the shame of visiting His Majesty at the abbey at Tihany [where he was temporarily imprisoned by Hungarian troops prior to his delivery to the British]. If I had never been a monarchist before, I should have...
Berlin, a city that has long been accustomed to the defiance flung by thousands of black, white & red monarchist flags, waxed hot and cold at this decree. Fiery Royalists announced that the government was going too far. They argued that personal liberty had been infringed by the mandate, that it was monstrous to prevent good monarchist soldiers from waving their flag, under which many had fought and bled for their country...
Stalwart Republicans made light of these remonstrances, saw nothing unusual in forcing the national army to use the national colors, adding that permission to fly the monarchist emblem might lead to a part of the army fighting against the Republic, if they so chose...
Discussion grew tense when it was discovered that the imperial flag might not even be used at a military funeral and that wreaths might not be tied with black, white & red ribbons. Nor would monarchist ire be allayed by the sop that imperial uniforms might still be worn by veterans at anniversary reunions and at the private burial of comrades...