Research topic: Count Stephen Bethlen

Count Stephen Bethlen 1874-1947?, Hungarian premier (1921-31). A Transylvanian, he entered the Hungarian parliament in 1901, and in 1919 he was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. Called to the premiership by Admiral Horthy, he prevented (1921), despite his monarchist leanings, the return of King Charles (Austrian Emperor Charles I) to avoid military intervention by the Little Entente . The chief aim of his foreign policy was the revision of the post-World-War-I Treaty of Trianon (see Trianon, Treaty of ); a treaty of friendship (1927) with Italy advanced this cause. Bethlen survived... Read more