Kossuth's Effort to Enlist America into the Hungarian Cause

Kossuth hoped that during his tour of the United States he would be able to persuade the American Government to intervene on behalf of the Hungarian cause. He was mistaken. Following his so-called “triumphal tour,”he was forced to return to Europe as a bitter and disappointed man. Kossuth's disillusionment was not with American democracy. Rather, it was with his inability to persuade America's political leadership to part with the principle of nonintervention laid down by George Washington

The London Czech Government and the Origins of the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans

Kopper C. The London Czech Government and the Origins of the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans. In: Várdy SB, Tooley TH, eds. Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Social science monographs. New York, NY: Columbia Univ. Press; 2003: 255