1888 October 26 | Born, Makó, Hungary |
pre-1914 | Served in the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Interior |
1914-1918 | Attached to the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Administration of Transylvania |
1919 | Organized active resistance with police force against the communist regime of Bela Kun in Hungary |
1920 | Chief of Press Section, Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, later in the Prime Minister's Office |
1922 | Elected to the Hungarian Parliament as member of the Government Party |
1923 | Went into opposition against the conservative government |
1929-1930 | Visited the United States upon the invitation of President Butler of Columbia University; lectured at American universities under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment |
1930 | Founded the Hungarian Small Holders' Party and became its leader |
1934-1935 | Chief Delegate of Hungary to the League of Nations, Geneva |
1935 | Leader of the democratic opposition in Hungary |
1940 | Visited the United States for the second time, received by President Roosevelt, who invited him to come to the United States in case Hungary was overrun by the Nazis |
1941 August 8 | Arrived in the United States |
1941 September | Founded the "Movement for Independent Hungary" |
1941-1945 | Collaborated with the U.S. State Department |
1948 | Participated in organizing the Hungarian National Council and accepted membership in its Executive Committee |
1954 | Resigned from the Executive Committee of the Hungarian National Council |
Participated in organizing the Assembly of Captive European Nations and became Chairman of its Hungarian delegation | |
1956 October | Launched the organization "First Aid for Hungary," with Herbert Hoover as Honorary Chairman |
1908 | Doctor of Law, University of Berlin, Germany |
Doctor of Law, Peter Pazmany University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary | |
1972 September 10 | Died, New York |
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