Word: szechenyi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Washington departed Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S., for Mexico City...
After the War, the Austro-Hungarian mission was liquidated and Hungary was left without diplomatic or consular representation in Mexico. Count Szechenyi's visit to that country was for the purpose of establishnig honorary consulships and negotiating for full diplomatic representation...
...expected, if his mission is successful, that Count Szechenyi will head the legation at both Washington and Mexico City, being represented in absence at the latter city by a Chargé d'Affaires...
...Montreal, the Count told reporters what they already knew about Hungary. He blamed Count Laszlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S., for causing his enforced silence; he attacked Regent Horthy of Hungary; he averred that U. S. loans were being used to finance another war, etc. In toto, he said what he was expected to say; he proved that he had nothing new to say. He had stolen fire, but so long ago that it had gone...
...hadn't been for them [the Szechenyis] nobody in America would have known about me, or wanted to hear what I had to say. Now, the American press is circulating my views in much greater detail than would have been possible otherwise, and magazines and publishers are after me to write articles. I must really pay Count Szechenyi a commission on what I get for my articles. I think 10% would be about right. He is a very good press agent...