Word: regents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 to Kun go unchecked. Virtual dictator of Hungary in the '20s and '30s, Horthy in 1940 made his country the Axis powers' first small-nation ally...
Down Arms. In Rabat young (28) Prince Regent Moulay Hassan summoned the Cabinet and called his father Ben Youssef on the phone. Next morning the Moroccan state radio broadcast a royal proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez...
...Minister Charles Malik (dubbed "the good Malik" to distinguish him from his onetime U.N. colleague, Russia's Jacob Malik) planned Washington conferences with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Next month, to discuss military assistance, will come Crown Prince Abdul Illah, who held the throne of Iraq as regent for his nephew Feisal, has stayed on as young (21) Feisal's adviser. In April will appear the erring, independent son of Communism, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, on a visit that will doubtless cause repercussions as violent in the U.S. as in Moscow. This week the initial repercussion...
...feuding French Generals Giraud and De Gaulle. He moved on to head the Allied Control Commission in Italy, where he conducted the negotiations with Italy's Marshal Badoglio. Late in the war Macmillan was sent to Greece to mediate in the savage civil war; he installed as Regent the bearded Archbishop Damaskinos, who held Greece in an uneasy peace for another year...
...come to punish this sinful city." The Red Terror became a counterterror, much of it directed against the Jews (Kun was Jewish). Though Horthy's country had been shorn of its seacoast and had no navy, he still used the title of admiral. As self-styled regent for an unoccupied throne, he ruled until 1944. During the early years of his long reign, under the premiership of Count Stephen Bethlen, Hungary was ruled by what was called an iron paternalism, but the iron gradually became more pronounced than the paternalism. The magnates continued to dominate the land: one-third...