Word: budapests
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...President Coolidge received the resignations of U. S. Minister Albert H. Washburn at Vienna, of U. S. Minister Theodore Brentano at Budapest...
...Emperor Karl there undoubtedly existed a warm national affection, but this availed him nothing at the end of the War. Almost without a blow, Hungary became for a few months a Republic under Count Michael Karolyi, although it would be truer to say that Budapest, the capital, became a Republic. Bolshevism succeeded Republicanism and was even shorter lived; for in August, 1919, after a harrowing Rumanian occupation, the Monarchists, led by Admiral Horthy, were once again in power. Horthy was elected Royal Governor, usually translated as Regent. He was invested with some of the royal powers, was empowered to enact...
...following is a conversation between Karl and Horthy which took place in 1921 at the Royal Palace in Budapest. The Emperor, who had not forgotten that he had failed to abdicate as the Apostolic King of Hungary, had previously signed a manifesto...
Most people believe that it was Horthy that crushed the Bolsheviki. This is not so for when, in 1919, he entered Budapest on his white charger at the head of the 'National Army, the Bolsheviki had already fallen under the coup de grace delivered by the Rumanian Army. But, none the less, Horthy has consented to take the credit...
...story tells of a lovely lady at a great ball in Budapest. For two years she has loved a youth, feared to go to him because of the watch of her veteran and nagging husband. The great Crown diamond is lost-a Buddah's eye with a history. Finding it behind a hanging, she catches fire from its influence. She tells her lover she will run away. In the crisis, he falters. Disillusioned, she gives up the diamond and goes back to her husband...