Word: teleki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went over to the Russians with his staff last October after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...
...Budapest, Count Bela Teleki, spokesman for the Transylvanian Deputies in Hungary's Lower Chamber, cried: "We must take action to insure that the shameful conditions [in Rumanian Transylvania], under which Hungarian nationals are robbed of all their possessions and are oppressed, end immediately...
...this was impossible. Then the Wilhelmstrasse tried to blackmail Hungary by threatening to "rectify" the 1940 Vienna award which returned Transylvania to Hungary. Having struggled most of his public life to regain Hungary's lost territories, Dr. Bardossy tried to follow the example of his predecessor, Count Paul Teleki, who, when pressed too hard by the Germans, put a bullet through his head. (Dr. Bardossy was prevented...
Hungary's Little Men also promptly joined the grab. Anti-Axis Premier Count Paul Teleki had died by suicide or murder a fortnight before (TIME, April 14) and Hungary lost no time turning its four-months-old non-aggression pact with Yugoslavia into a scrap of paper. Grim, square-jawed Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy sent troops into Yugoslavia to seize 8,000 square miles of rich cornfields and dairy lands, watered by the Danube and Tisza Rivers, which the treaty makers took from Austria-Hungary after World...
...more revealing report on Count Teleki came from the typewriter of Columnist Dorothy Thompson, to whom last year he gave a monograph he had written on the structure of European nations. (He had once been a professor of geography.) At that time he said of Transylvania: "I would rather wait another generation than get it by grace of the Germans." But Teleki had no choice. Columnist Thompson asked him: "What will you do if the Germans insist on using Hungary as a base for operations against another State?" He replied: "It will be Hungary's historic catastrophe...