Pethő Tibor: Elnök az előszobábanArchived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine(Károlyi Mihály útja a kisantanttól a Kominternig). Magyar Nemzet Magazin, 2010. ápr. 24. (szombat). Hiv. beillesztése: 2010. július 29.
Pethő Tibor: Elnök az előszobábanArchived 2014-12-17 at the Wayback Machine(Károlyi Mihály útja a kisantanttól a Kominternig). Magyar Nemzet Magazin, 2010. ápr. 24. (szombat). Hiv. beillesztése: 2010. július 29.
"He spent lavishly. He gambled, sat in orgies. People laughed at him. No one took him seriously. His glamorous life and his passion for cards, and later his political activities, consumed vast sums of money. [...] He was surrounded by flatterers. And he believed what the profiteers bent over backwards to tell him." - This is how Cecile Tormay, who saw Karolyi closely as a contemporary, but who regarded him as a political opponent, and who deeply hated him, not without subjectivity, because of their shared social environment, remembers him in her diary. Tormay Cecile. Notes from 1918-1919[1]
