Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1994. [Vol. 2.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 22)
STUDIES - Tamás Magyarics: The (Re) creation of the Relations between the US and the Successor States in Central Europe after the First World War
HUNGARY Hungary was the country in Central Europe, besides Austria, that was technically speaking at war with the U.S. until 1921. As a matter of fact, the two countries were sometimes still treated as one by U.S. officials, which fact may be attributed to ignorance, or indifference, or negligence, or a combination of the three. 3 5 Hungary was not quite satisfied with the draft of a treaty between the U.S. and Hungary putting an end to the hostilities officially. The Hungarian govenment did not go as far as the Bulgarians, who refused to sign a treaty securing all the advantages of the Versailles Treaty system for the Americans without their accepting any obligations stipulated by it As the American commissioner in Budapest —Ulysses Grant-Smith —reported to Hughes on July 27, 1921, Count Miklós Bánffy proposed to draft a resolution accepting full stipulation of peace resolution and acknowledging all privileges, rights, and interests of the U.S. and its nationals "with the circumstantial dispositions concerning those rights et cetera as stipulated in the Treaty of France". The Commissioner advised the Secretary of State to decline any kind of reservation. Hughes himself strongly opposed it and in his answer to the telegram received the previous day, he authorized Grant-Smith to warn the Hungarians that "the continuance of negotiations would be prejudiced" in case of any further Hungarian insistance on reservation. 3 6 The Hungarian government quickly fell in line with the American demand and the National Assembly unanimously passed the resolution stating that the "Hungarian National Assembly herewith accepts in full and without reservation the contents of the peace resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives dated July 1st, 1921, and approved by the President of the U.S., July lnd, 1921, as far as or The Commissioner at Budapest notified the Under Secretary of State on April 16, 1921 that "... In the press telegrams relative to the possibility of a state of peace being declared by the U.S. with the countries of Central Europe, Hungary has not, thus far, been specifically mentioned —only Germany arid Austria. I presume of course that Austria is used generically to include Hungary ...", Papers , 1921, Vol. 2, 249, 711.64119/42. 3 6 711.64119/2: Telegram. Papers, 1921, Vol. 2, 252. 85
