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Died. Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, 88, strongman of Hungary from 1920 to 1944; in his sleep; in Estoril, Portugal, where he had lived since 1948. A younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Impressing Visitors | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...sees the Prince dining in a restaurant, keep your head lowered. Do not stare." These precautions having been taken, Budapest reporters who covered H. R. H. & friends this week limited themselves to stating that he shot wild boars with the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wishart & Wild Boars | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Certain are Zita and her advisers that Prince von Starhemberg as Regent would be another detestable throne-squatter like the one in Budapest who will not get up. There lantern-jawed, leather-necked old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya has reigned 15 years as Regent-presumably for Otto who is indisputably the rightful Habsburg heir to Hungary's crown as well as Austria's. Admiral Horthy, who had sworn fealty upon the Holy Bible to Otto's late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Throne-Squatters | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Poor Man's King | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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