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

scope for action in foreign policy, he requested membership to the League of Nations. This he achieved in 1922 once the royal question had been sorted out and an end put to open irredentist politics. In the autumn of 1921 he entered an agreement with the social democrats, who represented the legal political left (the Bethlen-Peyer pact). In his system of mutual compromises Bethlen stood security for the conditions under which the social democrats operated. He abolished political rallies, the ban on parades, summary criminal proceedings, censorship and internment of the social democrats and promised an improvement in employees' insurance. In exchange, the social democrats abandoned their role as a radical opposition, political strikes, the organisation of public servants, post-office workers, the railwaymen Seal with the crest of the family of Count Bethlen "Honorary Citizen of the City" certificate made for PM István Bethlen by the City of Esztergom. 1926