A King's Choice

What happened with the Ottomans and Armenians? There was an admission of guilt?

:)

Well, a sort of 'we recognise that some misguided army officers went over the top. We're sorry that happened, but are in no way really responsible.'

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been away over Christmas.

Also, I'm not very far ahead in writing, so expect intermittent delays in future.
 
Chapter 21- Bosnia, Slovakia, Hungary, Transylvania

October 15th 1922, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Mehmed Spaho looked at the maps, diagrams, charts and reports in front of him. Things did not look good. A messenger arrived from the Post Room.

‘Sir,’ he announced, ‘we have a crisis, the Parliament has collapsed. The Croats and Serbs are refusing to attend.’
‘I was expecting this’ replied Spaho, ‘we have but one thing on our side, their disunity. Both the Croats and the Serbs are split on whether they want Autonomy or to join Croatia or Serbia respectively. We can expect Serbia to attempt to intervene on the behalf of the Serbs. We must move to get Croatia on our side. Tell Zagreb that the Croats in Bosnia will receive full autonomy, unconditionally. If we can prevent Croatian intervention as well as Serbian we should be in with a chance.’
‘I shall send a dispatch to Zagreb immediately.’

October 28th 1922, Bratislava, Slovakia

Jozef Stefanik looked out of the window of his bedroom down onto Sedlarska. Down the street marched a brigade of soldiers in grey uniforms. Swivelling round, he looked as the leader reached the Town Hall, knocked and entered. 5 minutes later, a large tricolour of Red, White and Green Horizontal Stripes was unfurled over the balcony above the door, and joined the hundreds of others on official buildings across the former capital of the Slovak Republic.

October 30th 1922, Geneva, Switzerland

Drummond looked at the reports coming in from the Kingdom of Hungary. Slovakia was being occupied, Ruthenia was under threat of invasion. Croatia was being threatened with de facto control, and the Banat was a mess. He called his secretary.

‘Send a message out to the Little Council members, tell them that I wish to force economic sanctions on Hungary for their invasion of Slovakia. And if they invade Ruthenia, they may be threatened with the risk of troops arriving to guarantee that nation’s independence.’

From The Times article of October 21st 1922


Hungarian Regent Announced


Former Grand Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy Miklos Horthy has been elected to the position of Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary following the failure of that country to find a suitable person to enthrone. Budapest reports that the new Regent was calm and collected when he heard the news. He will be formally invested next week.

November 1st 1922, Budapest, Hungary

Miklos Horthy looked at the advisors that made up the Hungarian Cabinet. He frowned as they finished explaining the current situation of Hungary.

‘So, the Slovaks are still resisting in the mountains, we cannot do anything about Ruthenia without angering the rest of Europe, half of Transylvania is up in arms wishing to join Romania, and the Banat is a mess of Serbs, Croats and Romanians wishing to leave Hungary. Tell the army I want Transylvania secured, and that they are to... persuade any Serbs they may happen to meet to leave the country.’

When the cabinet had left, he sat back, and smiled a small smile of satisfaction.
 
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Well, a sort of 'we recognise that some misguided army officers went over the top. We're sorry that happened, but are in no way really responsible.'

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been away over Christmas.

Also, I'm not very far ahead in writing, so expect intermittent delays in future.

OK, that's fine.

With the new update, consider editing "Down the street marched a brigade of soldiers in grey uniforms marched down the street."

You repeat 'marched' twice, which doesn't sound good.

:)
 
I'm reading your story with great interest Alex; well written. The only nit I'd pick thus far is that I would of had Karl style himself King of Austria rather then lower his status to that of Archduke.
 
I'm reading your story with great interest Alex; well written. The only nit I'd pick thus far is that I would of had Karl style himself King of Austria rather then lower his status to that of Archduke.

Nope. If you look at the history, the title 'Archduke of Austria' was held in higher esteem by the nobility than that of 'King of Hungary'.
 
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To all.

Due to the unfortunate coincidence of Real Life and Writer's Block, I'm postponing updates on this thread for the foreable future. Hopefully I'll have enough material to continue later this year.
 
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