Is 2026 the New 1956? The Suez Crisis, which has its 70th anniversary this year, is probably one of the most well-known events in history. Briefly, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who consolidated his power in Egypt after the revolution led by the Free Officers (July 23-26, 1952) and was gaining more and more influence internationally, for example by the Non-Aligned Movement on which he worked together with Yugoslavian President and Prime Minister Yosip Broz Tito and Indian Prime

The Mohács Disaster of 1526 and the Parallel Dramas of 1956 This year two topics were chosen as the main themes of the daily compilations on the Facebook site. One of them the Battle of Mohács, which became one of the biggest disaster of the Hungarian history. (I would like to say thank you to Dr. Richárd Bottlik and his team, whose website I could use; about their new book you can read here) We left Istanbul with Suleiman I (1520-1566) on April 23, 1526 and followed him as h

The German Occupation of Hungary The Hungarian Prime Minister, Miklós Kállay was greeted by Regent Miklós Horthy and others on March 9,...

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The Balfour Declaration The one of the most important documents of the Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the history of the State...

The 5th emergency special session of the UN General Assembly reconvened, and the president asked the participants to inform the Assembly...

A conference of the leaders of the Communist and Workers’ parties and heads of governments of the socialist countries on the situation in...

The President of the UN General Assembly, Abdul Rahman Pazhwak made a statement to inform the public about the fifth emergency special...

On the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly two draft resolutions – the ones of the non-aligned countries and the...

Gideon Rafael, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN in a letter to the UN Secretary-General informed him – and asked him to...

The bombing of Kassa (then Hungary, today Košice, Slovakia) on June 26, 1941, was an important moment of the Hungarian history. After the...

On the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly Maurice Couve de Murville, French Minister of Foreign Affairs had a...

On the fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly George Brown, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the UK held...

The United States Ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg submitted the US draft resolution about the solution of the Middle East conflict...

The Israeli cabinet continued the discussion about the territories occupied in the Six-Day War, and a proposal to make for the Arab...

The Israeli government continued to discuss the future of the territories occupied during the Six-Day War. Because of the duties during...

The fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly opened, with big media attention. (The four other emergency sessions...

Let me inform You, Dear Visitor, about a new, monumental publication edited by experts of Hungarian research institutes. This collection...

In Washington Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin met US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn E....

On a cabinet meeting the ministers discussed the fate of the newly captured territories. The viewpoints were different, some seemed to...