Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 17. The Hungary of Trianon from the Election of the Regent to the Last Year of Peace (1920-1938). László Baják

could not take up the matter, for in British political circles the peer was neither influential nor popular, but the there was no doubting the usefulness of the unexpected propaganda. The injustice of the peace treaty, coupled with the social misery necessarily following the lost war, the inflation and unemployment which worsened the conditions of the some 350,000 Hungarian refugees expelled from the disannexed territories, were also good breeding Legitimist badge with the monogram of Prince Otto Habsburg, son of Chartes IV who died in exile on the island of Madeira in 1922 grounds for the movements of the extreme right However, the consolidating regime of Count Pál Teleki succeeding in curbing the militant, antiSemitic organisations, such as the notorious white terror officers' detachment or the Society for Awakening Hungarians (EME), while naturally maintaining regulations against the political left, and especially against the communists. From 1920 Hungary was once again a kingdom, but the question of who should be king remained unresolved. According to some (the monarchists in favour of elected kings), Charles IV had abdicated, and so the country was free to elect a new king, while others (the legitimists) believed that Charles had only temporarily withdrawn from active rule; that is, he was still the country's legitimate ruler. The question sharply divided the political public opinion. In 1921, Charles himself twice attempted to regain his throne. Ceremonial admiral's dress of Regent Miklós Horthy