Magyar külpolitika, 1930 (11. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)

1930 / 2. szám - The Hungarian Regency and its present Holder

July 1930 HUNGÁRIA LLOYD 23 his residence in the EoyaJ Palace standing on the site once oocupied by1 the stately home of Matthias Hunyadi is fon Admiral Horthy an enormous sacrifice; for — quite apart from the fact that his authority is hcdged ronnd with restrictions set by the legislature of a character hardlyj in keeping with the duties imposed on him by his office — the present Regent of Hungary has had to faco criticism for eyents for which he was not responsible and has still to faoe the ordeal of a misapprehension originating from a oomplete misunderstanding of the symbolical nature of the dignity which he has been called upon by his nation'to assume There is a sl l iking parallel between the wanton interference in the internál affairs of Hungary by those factors which in the Treaty of the Trianon guaranted her full independence and the outirageous apathy with which Christian Europe földed its arms in self-satisfied assurance as it watched the heroic strugglest of Hunyadi to save European civilisation against the inroads of Tnrkish conquerors; and that same Europe sawed the seeds of the Greal War of 1!M4— 1918 when it failed, in 1849, to listen to the appeal of Hungary for aid and allowed the ruthless tyranny of Austria and the relentless despotism of 1 Czarism to plunge the independence of that country into an untimely grave. Far graver were the blunders conunitted by the political wiseacres'j who in the years immediately following the Great War „rolled up the map of Europe"; and it was no easy task which then faced the men responsible for the work of endeavouring to cope with an apparently hopeless situation and to reconstruct a country which had been deprived by hatred and misunderstanding of the' very means of ALADÁR HOFFMANN BUDAPEST, VII., KLAUZÁL-UTCA 3. ESTABLISHED IN 1900. YARNS FACTORY REPRESENTATIONS IrV ALL BRANCHES OF THE TEXTILÉ INDUSTRY. subsistence. That the work has been so successful and has resulted in' piacing Hungary on her legs again, is in no small measure due to the tact and cautious circumspection with1 which the Regent, aided by the cool statesmanship of Count Stephen Bethlen, another of the great sons of Transylvania, has guided the destinies of his people and by his example enabled Ihat people to preserve its menta! equilibrium under the mos) trying cii-öiunstances despite wanton provocation and tbc insidious schemings of that political Egoisin which has been one or the „blessings" inflicted on Europe by the aberrations of political empiricism. „A power from the unknown God. A Promethean conqueror, came; Like a triumphál i><üh he trod The ihorns of death and shame... The moon of Mahomet Arose, omi it simli set: While, blazoned as on lieaven's immortal The Cross leads generations on". [noon, Arthur B. Yolland. 1 Yolland, „Hungary" („The Nations Historics", T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh and London. 1917), p. 125. 2 Yolland. ..Hungary", p. 128. THE FIRST HUNGÁRIÁN GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY held their Annual Meeting of 1929, on May íjth, at which the profits for 1929 were fixed at 196,939.38 pengő and the dividends at 15 pengő per share.