page_title: Harry Hill Bandholtz
section_title: Memorial in Budapest
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Hill Bandholtz / Memorial in Budapest
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of US Army Major General Harry Hill Bandholz at Szabadság tér (Freedom Square), Budapest, Hungary (near the US Embassy Building) Magyar: Harry Hill Bandholz amerikai vezérőrnagy szobra a budapesti Szabadság téren, az Egyesült Államok nagykövetségének épülete előtt Deutsch: Statue von US-Generalmajor Harry Hill Bandholz, auf dem Platz der Freiheit (Szabadság tér), vorm Botschaftsgebäude der USA
context_page_description: Harry Hill Bandholtz was a United States Army career officer who served for more than a decade in the Philippines. He was a Major General during World War I, and the US representative of the Inter-Allied Military Mission in Hungary in 1919.
context_section_description: In 1936, the Hungarian government commissioned a statue in Bandholtz's honor and placed it in Szabadság tér (Liberty Square) across from the US embassy in Budapest. It is inscribed with the following (a quote from him): 
  I simply carried out the instructions of my government, as I understood them, as an officer and a gentleman of the United States Army.
  The statue, made by prominent Hungarian sculptor Miklós Ligeti, depicts Bandholtz with his riding crop in one hand. According to the historical fact about his standoff with the Romanian military, he had persuaded them to stop looting the National Museum with nothing more than the crop and the force of his personality. The incident is described in detail in his book An Undiplomatic Diary by the American Member of the Inter-Allied Military Mission to Hungary, 1919-1920. Today the crop is on display in the Hungarian National Museum.
  Romanian representatives objected to the memorial. The protests of the Romanian authorities led the American embassy to adopt a more circumspect attitude, deciding that only American diplomats of lesser rank be present at the unveiling of the monument.
  After World War II, the statue was repaired. But in 1949, it was removed by the new Communist government that had come to power. In 1985, at the request of Ambassador Nicolas M. Salgo, the Hungarian government moved the work from a statue boneyard to the garden of the US Ambassador's residence. It was returned to its original place in the park in front of the US embassy on July 6, 1989, a day before President George H. W. Bush's historic visit to Budapest. The inscription was restored in 1993, a few years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
caption: The statue of Major General Bandholtz (by Miklós Ligeti) in front of the US Embassy in Budapest, Hungary
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