Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Foreign Minister Csoky Dies
In Budapest at Age of 46
Official Succumbs
After Illness of
Seven Weeks
Rz the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary. Jan. ~
Foreign Minister Count Stefan
Csaky, as, whose signature linked
Hungary and the ome-Berlin-
TOXIC axis last November. died at
2:34 am. today after an illness of
seven weeks
The Foreign Minister, youngest
in Hungarys history, had been in
coma since Saturday night. He was
stricken i'll December 9 aboard a
train in Yugoslavia just after sign
ing Yugoslav-Hungarian friend
ship pact.s
His illness first was diagnosed as
influenza, but later as food poison
ing
Count Csaky's 28-year-old bride
of eight months, the former Coun-
tess Maria Chorinsky of Moravia,
was at the bedside when death
came.
Foreign Minister Since 1888.
Count Csaky. who had spent half
his life in the Foreign ONCE became
Foreign Minister in 1888 after the
Munich conference. when a cabinet
change growing out of dissatisfac-
ton over Hungary's share of Czecho-
Slovakia brought him into the gov
eminent. He had held the portfolio
ever since.
Count Csaky was said to have
enjoyed the confidence Of both Be-
nito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. The
key to his policy was in the asser-
ton he often made that Hungary's
greatest good was to be found in
tightening her bonds with Germany
Count CSaky was career diplo-
mat, professional who could trade
/ punches with the best of them in
that hard-fisted trade. But he was
first of all Hungarian patriot and
ardent nationalist.
/ Nearly half his life had been spent
in the Foreign Office. Brought up
in pre-war Austria Hungary, he
trained for his profession in the
Royal Academy at Vienna. He en-
tered the service of his country as
an obscure legation attache in 1919,
during the confusion following the
World War.
! His rise in the service was steady
| but unspectacular. Before he was
called home to serve under Foreign
Minister Koloman Won Kanya in
Budapest, he had been Minister to
Spain and charge d'affaires for
Spain and Portugal.
Obcerver at Munich.
He was chief of the cabinet of
Won Kanya's ministry in 1888 and in
this capacity was an observer at the
Munich conference in which the Nazi
remolding of Europe began to take
form.
And it was the Munich conference
that opened the way for Count
Csaky to attain the post of Foreign
Minister. Hungarian dissatisfaction
over the size of the slice of Czecho-
Slovaklan territory allotted to Hun
gary at the conference brought Won
Kanya's resignation.
When Premier Bella Imredi pre-
scented his revamped cabinet in De-
cember, 1888, Count Csaky held the
portfolio of Foreign Minister.
In the two years which preceded
his fatal illness, Count Csaky spent
more time ION the road" than a
travelling salesman. Rome and Ber-
lin were his chief points of call.
Respected in Chancelleries.
Count Csaky was respected in the
chancelleries. Small-statured, he
made up for size with energy, and
his characteristic black mustache
fairly bristled when he spoke.
A bachelor until he was As, he
married Countess Chorinsky, de-
cendant of a distinguished Moravian
family, eight months ago.
His mission of assuring axis sup