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Lunch at the Károlyis during the summer of 1947. Mr. and Mrs. Rajk, Mrs. Károlyi nee Katinka Andrássy, Mr. and Mrs. Lajos Dinnyés and the host, Mihály Károlyi. Károlyi  was the leader of the 1st Hungarian Democratic Republic, served as Prime Minister between 1 – 16 November 1918 and as President between 16 November 1918 – 21 March 1919. In 1947–49 served as the Hungarian Ambassador to France. In 1949, he resigned in protest over the show trial and execution of László Rajk, Sr.▼