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Károlyi of Nagykárolyi, Mihály Count

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Károlyi of Nagykárolyi, Mihály Count (b. 4 Mar. 1875, d. 19 Mar. 1955). Prime Minister of Hungary 1918–19 Born in Budapest, he entered Parliament in 1905. Of liberal views, he favoured a less pro-German policy for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and equal rights for all nations within it. As leader of the Independence Party from 1913, on 31 October 1918 he became Prime Minister, and thereafter President of Hungary. He tried hard, but not very successfully, to cope with the problems of demobilization and economic collapse that followed the end of the war. When these problems were compounded by the loss of what Hungarians regarded as their historic heartland, Transylvania, the national outrage was such that he was deposed by Béla Kun on 21 March 1919. He went into exile, but returned to become Hungarian ambassador to Paris, 1947–9, where he sought and gained renewed exile.

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