Borisz de Balla

De Balla was active in Hungarian Catholic circles, and served as an editor, co-editor, or contributor for several Hungarian Catholic periodicals, including Korunk Szava (Voice of Our Age, editor from 1931-1935), Új Kor (New Era), Jelenkor (Our Age), Nemzeti Újság (National News), and Vigilia (Vigil, editor-in-chief from 1935-1938).

He left the diplomatic service in 1946 and remained in Paris for a year, before emigrating to the United States with his wife, the Baroness Melanie de Schwaben-Durneiss.

[4] In America, de Balla taught History at Loyola College in Maryland from 1947-1948, where he was referred to as "the leading Hungarian Catholic novelist.

If some faculty were still in good health and were still important to and needed by their department, they could still receive annual renewals that would have to be approved up the administrative chain of command.

[8] He was the author of "A lélek útjai Nyugaton" (1934); "A megsebzett" (1938); "Niczky növendék" (1939); "Brüsszeli napló: 1939-1940" (1940); "Der Verwundete" (1947); "Niké naplója" (1959); and "Traditionalist Warnings and the Limits of Progress in History" (1967).