Discussing Hitler: Advisers of U.S. Diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934-41

Biographical Notes

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ACKERSON, Garret G. (?-?), U.S. diplomat, 2nd secretary of U.S. legation in Budapest. ALBRECHT, Archduke (1897–1955), pro-Nazi member of the Habsburg family in Hungary, cooperated with the Hungarian Arrowcross movement and acted as informer for the SS during World War II. ALEXANDER I (1888–1934), king of Yugoslavia 1921–34, murdered in Marseille. APOR, Gábor, Baron (18891969), Hungarian diplomat, permanent deputy of foreign minister after 1935, minister to Holy See from 1939. BAKACH-BESSENYEY, György, Baron (1892–1959), Hungarian diplomat, head of political section of foreign ministry 1934–38, subsequently minister to Belgrade (1938–41), Vichy (1941–43), and Bern (1943–44). BÁRDOSSY, László (1890–1946), Hungarian diplomat and politician, minister to Bucharest 1934–41, foreign minister 1941–42, prime minister 1941–42, executed as a war criminal. BENEŠ, Eduard (1884–1948), foreign minister of Czechoslovakia 1918–35 (and prime minister 1921–23), president of Czechoslovakia 1935–38, 1946–48. BETHLEN, István, Count (1874–1946), Transylvanian landowner and Hungarian statesman , prime minister 1921–31. BLOMBERG, Werner Eduard Fritz von (1878–1947) German general, field marshal from 1936, minister of war 1933–38. BOSSY, Raoul (1894–?), Romanian minister to Budapest 1936–39, and Berlin 1941–43. CAROL (Charles) II (1893–1953), king of Romania 1930–40, son of Ferdinand I. Forced to abdicate because of his relationship with Madame (Magda) Lupescu in 1925. Returned in 1930, proclaimed his dictatorship in 1938, and founded Front of National Resurrection under his own leadership. Forced to abdicate again in 1940 for his son, Mihai (Michael); went into exile. CHAMBERLAIN, Arthur Neville (1869–1940), British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain, half-brother of Sir Austen Chamberlain, Conservative MP 1918–40, member of several British governments 1922–37, prime minister 1937–40. Leading figure in policy of appeasement vis-à-vis Nazi Germany. CHORIN, Ferenc, Jr., Dr. (1879–1964), Hungarian industrialist, general manager, later chairman of coal-mining plant Salgótarjáni Kôszénbánya Rt, president of Federation of Hungarian Industrialists (GYOSZ) 1928–42, member of Upper House of Hungarian Parliament. CIANO, Galeazzo, Count (1903–1944), Italian Fascist leader, son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, foreign minister 1936–43, executed for rebelling against the Duce. COLONNA, Ascanio Prince (1883–?), Italian diplomat, minister to Stockholm and Budapest (1932–36), ambassador to Washington. CRUŢESCU, Gheorghe (1890–1950), Romanian minister to Budapest 1939–41. CSÁKY, István, Count (1894–1941), Hungarian diplomat, chief of cabinet of foreign minister 1935–38, foreign minister 1938–41. DARÁNYI, Kálmán (1886–1939), Hungarian politician, lord lieutenant, minister of agriculture 1935–38, prime minister 1936–38, speaker of the House 1938–39. DOLLFUSS, Engelbert (1892–1934), Austrian Conservative statesman, leader of Christian Socialist Party, minister of agriculture 1931–32, chancellor 1932–34, murdered by Nazis. ECKHARDT, Tibor, Dr. (1888–1972), Hungarian politician, lawyer, MP, founding president of Ébredô Magyarok Egyesülete [Union of Awakening Hungarians] 1923–, leader of Hungarian National Independence Party (Defenders of the Race), acting vice-president of Magyar Revíziós Líga [Hungarian Revisionist League] from 1928, chairman of Smallholders’ Party 1932–1940, Hungary’s permanent delegate to League of Nations; left Hungary for United States in 1941. EDEN, Sir Anthony (1897–1977), British MP after 1923, minister for League of Nations affairs 1935, foreign minister 1935–38, 1940–45, 1951–55, prime minister 1955–57. GÖRING [Goering], Hermann (1893–1946), German Nazi politician, president of the Reichstag, Prussian minister of interior, Prussian prime minister, head of Luftwaffe, the German air force, Reichsmarschall; committed suicide in Nürnberg. GÖMBÖS, Gyula (1886–1936), Hungarian officer and statesman, captain in the general staff, chairman of Hungarian National Defense Union (MOVE), leader of Hungarian National Independence Party (Defenders of the Race) 1923–28, army general after 1930, minister of defense 1929–36, prime minister 1932–36. GRIGORCEA, Vasile (1883–1949), Romanian diplomat, minister to Budapest (1928–36), later London. HABSBURG, Otto von, Dr. (b. 1912–), archduke and royal Hungarian prince, heir to throne of Austria-Hungary, son of Charles IV, King of Hungary (= Charles I as Emperor of Austria). 348 Biographical Notes HITLER, Adolf (1889–1945), leader of German National Socialist Workers’ Party 1920– 1945, dictator of Germany 1933–45, chancellor 1933–34, “Führer and Chancellor” 1934–45. HODŽA, Milan (1878–1944), MP in Hungarian Parliament 1905–18, member of Czechoslovak Parliament 1918–38, Czechoslovak prime minister 1935–38. H...