Died 1946-10-05.
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István Bethlen
Count István Bethlen de Bethlen was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as prime minister from 1921 to 1931.
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politics · Hungarian politician (1874–1946) · economist · politician · diplomat · non-fiction writer · minister · also István Bethlen, Istvan Bethlen, Conde Istvan Bethlen, Stephen Bethlen, Count Stephen Bethlen, Bethlen
Born 8 October 1874 · Died 5 October 1946 · Q529130
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1946· 1 entry
1944· 3 entries
Bethlen wrote about the decision to declare war on the Soviet Union "the gullible Hungarian public was made to believe this by propaganda meant to trick us into the war by painting the bogey of Bolshevism on the wall"
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“the gullible Hungarian public was made to believe this by propaganda meant to trick us into the war by painting the bogey of Bolshevism on the wall”
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“the inhuman and stupid persecution of the Jews with which the present government had strained the Hungarian name...and threatened to corrupt once and for all large segments of gentile society”
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1942· 1 entry
To set up a Hungarian government-in-exile in London to headed by Bethlen
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1938· 2 entries
Bethlen told a parliamentary commission: "During the talks we had recently,
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“During the talks we had recently,...the Germans repeatedly warned us:”
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1936· 1 entry
The honved was a stronghold of the radicals
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1929· 1 entry
Bethlen planned to include the rural population in the social safety net he was creating, but the impact of the Great Depression ensured the cancellation of these plans as it was simply financially impossible for Hungary
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1928· 3 entries
Bethlen declared: "We did not lose provinces
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Bethlen liberalised the numerus clausus law by declaring that Hungarian universities could accept as many Jewish students as they wanted
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“We did not lose provinces. We were partitioned...We cannot surrender one third of our race for all eternity. This we cannot accept as justice...If someone has buttoned his vest wrong, he can only correct his dress if he unbuttons it and then buttons it correctly. To build a permanent peace on these borders is impossible. What can only be built on these borders is a prison, in which we are the guarded and the victors the guards...what we need is new borders”
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1927· 1 entry
To further his nation's revisionist hopes
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1925· 1 entry
The Board of Deputies of British Jews lodged a complaint against Hungary at the League Council (the executive of the League of Nations), charging that the numerus clausus law of 1920, which imposed a 5% quota on the numb
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1924· 2 entries
With Romania in 1926 and Yugoslavia in 1927, which gave the Little Entente a great power protector
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (1924–1924).
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1921· 5 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Hódmezővásárhely (1921).
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Horthy asked Bethlen to form a strong government to eliminate the possibility of other such threats to the new country
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Signed a defensive alliance known as the Little Entente committing themselves to come to the aid of the other members of the Little Entente if they were attacked by Hungary, which in effect ruled out any possibility of H
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Which committed both powers to come to the aid of the other one if they were attacked by Germany
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Hungary (1921–1931).
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1919· 2 entries
Bethlen rejected a personal union between Romania and Hungary under the King of Romania
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And had went on to found an avowed racist and anti-semitic group called "the race protectors"
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1910· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1910–1918).
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1906· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1906–1910).
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1905· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1905–1906).
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1904· 1 entry
Count István Bethlen de Bethlen (1904–1982) ⚭ Donna Maria Isabella dei Conti Parravicini (1912–2008); had issue
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1901· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the National Assembly of Hungary (1901–1905).
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Reluctantly took the oath of loyalty to the King-Emperor Franz Josef, but he made it clear right from the onset of his career that he was not loyal to the House of Habsburg and would had preferred for the Kingdom of H
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1896· 1 entry
Studied at Eötvös Loránd University (1896).
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1893· 1 entry
Studied at Theresianum (1893).
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-10-08.
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