Diplomáciai Iratok Magyarország Külpolitikájához 1936-1945, 5. kötet
Iratok - IV. A Balkán-háború kiterjesztése. A jugoszláv—magyar örökbarátsági szerződés létrejötte. Magyarország részvétele a Jugoszlávia elleni támadásban (1940. november 23.—1941. április 9.)
577. A BUDAPESTI ANGOL KÖVETNEK ÁTADOTT EMLÉKEZTETŐ Budapest, 1941. március 4. ,,Pro Memoria 1. The principles of international law as to the rights and obligations of countries not participating in war are subject to constant changes and are interpreted by the interested Governments in various ways. In the course of the present war we have also witnessed and are still witnessing on the part of certain States an attitude, which can hardly be reconciled with the orthodox legal principles of neutrality, and cause therefore uncertainty as to the substance of the mentioned rights and obligations. 2. This uncertainty is increased by the circumstance it appears doubtful, whether the provisions of the V. th Agreement concluded at the second Hague Peace-Conference of 1907. can be applied in the present war, considering the stipulations of Art. 20. of the same Agreement. It becomes therefore, highly problematical, whether there exists in international law any generally accepted axiom clearly defining the rights and obligations of non-belligerent countries towards belligerent States. 3. The fact that the German Troops crossing Hungary were bound for a non-belligerent State which they entered on the expressed request of that country, must be regarded as being of decisive importance. 4. No less can the fact be disregarded, that no country, and up to February 11 t h not even Great Britain herself, drew any extreme conclusions from the universally known presence of German Troops in Roumania and that Great Britain maintained diplomatic relation with Roumania, while the German military transports arrived in that country. 5. Taking the circumstances as exposed above into account it seems doubtless that Hungary can not be accused of having infringed any written or generally accepted principle of International Law." Küm. Szent-Iványi-kézirat, 484—485. old. Másolat. 903
