During the Hungarian Revolution, Otto von Habsburg proposed that the American president formally announce the United States’ readiness to return the Holy Crown to the freely elected representatives of the Hungarian nation.
On 26 October, we launched the first volume in our new series, The Works of Otto von Habsburg.
From April to October 1918, the offices of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy waged a tenacious war of attrition against one another. At issue was not the fate of the front line, but payment for porcelain bearing the Fischer name, delivered to the “Budapest Hofburg” – the royal palace in Buda.
Sixty years ago, Otto von Habsburg’s article “The Effects of Communism on Cultural and Psychological Politics in Eastern Europe” appeared. Published a decade after the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Revolution, the essay affirms his conviction that no ideology can permanently eradicate the human longing for freedom.
