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Paul Andrew Fabry
(born Fabry, Pal Andras) (19 June 1919 ? 8 August 2018) was a Hungarian-American politician, diplomat, businessman. Fabry was best known for his efforts as a founder of the
World Trade Centers Association
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Fabry, along with his business associates Tadayoshi Yamada and
Guy F. Tozzoli
, fostered the foundation of the World Trade Centers Association in 1968, which led to the development and operation of World Trade Centers worldwide along with the building of the
World Trade Center
in New York. He was also the founder of the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Award.
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Biography
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In Hungary
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He was born in
Budapest
to Andrew Fabry, a General and high ranking judge, and Ilona Gombos, an artist and painter, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the
Hungarian Soviet Republic
. In 1937, he graduated from the Godoll? Premonstratensian Grammar School. In 1942, he obtained a doctorate in political science from the
Pazmany Peter Catholic University
. In 1944 he was a reserve officer, entered the
Independent Smallholders' Party
and participated in the anti-Nazi resistance movement. After the war, he was secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and on 4 November 1945, he was elected as a substitute in the Grand-Budapest constituency. From November 15, 1945, he was the head of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister under
Zoltan Tildy
, and subsequently the Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of the Republic. He was invited to the National Assembly on 24 January 1947, but resigned on 11 February because he was appointed secretary of the Hungarian Embassy in
Ankara
.
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Emigration
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On June 14, 1947, following the violent resignation of Prime Minister
Ferenc Nagy
, he left his position as a political emigrant for English intelligence. In 1949 he settled down in the
United States
. Between 1950 and 1953 he was the head of the Hungarian office of the
Radio Free Europe
in
New York
, and until 1962 he was a propaganda consultant at
Du Pont
in
Wilmington, Delaware
. He established the
World Trade Centers Association
, until 1989 he was the CEO of the
New Orleans World Trade Center
. Between 1982 and 1992 he was an honorary consul of
Belgium
in the southern states of the USA. In 1989, he founded the Pulitzer Memorial Award for which he was awarded a state prize in 2009.
References
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Further reading
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- Laszlo Agnes.
Egy sors, egy szazad ? Fabry Pal elete mozaikkepekben. Magvet?, Budapest
(1997).
ISBN
963-14-2065-5