[Count]. Hungarian politician, born on the 4th of March 1875. He was at first an agrarian Conservative, and as such president of the Hungarian Agricultural Union, and then, as deputy, an adherent of the extreme Chauvinist party. He became the leader of the Radical wing of the Independence party, a personal opponent of Count Stephen Tisza, and led the parliamentary opposition and obstruction against him. In the spring of 1914 he travelled to America to collect among Hungarians resident there election funds for his party. The outbreak of war found him in France, where his companions were interned, but he was allowed to go free, and returned to Hungary. He entered the army as a volunteer. On the approach of the catastrophe he allied himself and his party with the anti-Chauvinist Bourgeois-Radicals and the Social Democrats, developed pacifist views, and sought to bring an end to the war by preparing the way for the revolution. He was prime minister in the October revolution, and was elected by the National Council on January 11, 1919, President of the Hungarian People’s Republic. He handed over the Government on March 21, 1919, to the Soviet Government, and after its fall emigrated to Czechoslovakia, then to Italy, but was expelled from there on February 1, 1921, on account of Communist propaganda. He then obtained permission to live in Yugoslavia.
