March 29, 1921. Travelers.

Charles I, not a man to be easily deterred, met again with Admiral Horthy to attempt to persuade him to allow him to reclaim his position as the King of Hungary.

Admiral Horthy in 1918.

Horthy, the regent, faced with political reality and a threat of declaration of war from two of his country's neighbors, declined.

Horthy was a study in unlikely positions and the middle ground.  A monarchist at heart, he was denying the restoration of a monarchy he had served as he was well aware that the result would not have been welcome in a politically unstable country.  He had only lately presided over the defeat of a nearly successful Communist effort to gain control of the country.  He was also a Protestant, oddly enough, in a Catholic nation, and an Admiral in a landlocked one, a status he had achieved when Austro Hungaria was was an empire.

Horthy would go on to a long career, but his luck ran out attempting to extract Hungary from its alliance with Germany late in World War Two, an action which lead to his losing power when one of his sons was kidnaped by the Germans.  He'd end up a witness in the Nuremburg trials and went on to exile in Portugal post war, dying in 1953.  He remains a controversial figure in Hungary.

The British Labour Party, to its everlasting credit, gave the Communist Party the middle finger salute and rejected a demand that it accept a list of dictated positions and thereby placing it outside of the Comitern.

Some figures of the American Army gathered to be photographed with a now obsolete Curtis JN-4:

 

March 29, 1921. Standing by the biplane.

A photograph taken on this day in 1921.  I believe the airplane is a Curtis Jenny.

The Republic of China, racked by internal strife, none the less entered into a contract to build the most powerful radio station in the world at that time.   The contract was with the American Federal Telegraph Company.

This photo was taken in Anchorage:  Steamer Alameda discharging cargo. March 29 - 1921. Anchorage, Alaska.