Levéltári Közlemények, 40. (1969)

Levéltári Közlemények, 40. (1969) 1. - TANULMÁNYOK ÉS FORRÁSOK A MAGYAR TANÁCSKÖZTÁRSASÁG TÖRTÉNETÉHEZ - Karsai Elek: Iratok a Magyar Tanácsköztársaság történetéhez angol levéltárakban / 137–158. o.

Iratok a Magyar Tanácsköztársaság történetéhez angol levéltárakban 149 Béla Kun had made a speech "in which he pointed out the indecision of Allies, weakness of the Roumanians, and said that it only required 2 or 3 weeks to produce Bolshevism in the neighbouring countries (including Roumania) and pointed out the almost certainty of Bolshevism breaking out in Germany when she received the peace terms. The Government then decided to remain in power and this decision they of course easily made the council of Soviets confirm." ". . . The great object of the Government appears to be at all and any cost save time and so enable them to consolidate their position ... In short, the Government, is a Government of adventurous opportunists who are quite untrustworthy in the smallest matter and impossible to deal with." "The vast majority of the population is eagerly awaiting an Allied intervention, and the hole are expecting it and unable to understand why it is so long delayed . .. The whole situation demands immediate action by the Allies and a statement of policy. It would be impossible to recognise the present Government as it does not in the least represent the people and it cannot be trusted any way." PRO FO 371. Austria—Hungary (W3) 1919. —f. 1193—88 784. Megjegyzés: "The report is interesting, if rather old, and shows the futility of trying to have any dealings of any kind with Béla Kun. 17/6" 4. London, 1919. julius 3. Feljegyzés a Freeman kapitány és LBN között a Foreign Office-ban lezajlott, a magyarországi helyzetre vonatkozó beszélgetésről Fr. — "In the life of villages the soviets have made very little difference. The village commune continues as before. But the agrarian reform of the Károlyi Government has come to stay. In many cases the peasents carry on the management of the big estates in co-operation with their late managers without breaking up the land into small lots." "... In the town of Budapest itself the organised working men are Socialist but not Bolshevik and are strong opposed to the Bolshevik regime ..." "Of all the Allies the British are by far the most popular in Hungary,

... a British general should be put in charge of the reconstruction of political government in Hungary, i, e. of of the administration until a property elected assembly is convened." LBN : "I am quite prepared to believe that the Magyars have by now recognised the impossibility of preserving Hungary's "integrity" and that they have practically abandoned the part of the scheme. I am not, however prepared to believe that any of the big feudal lords, if they once more feel force behind them, especially in the form of foreign bayonets, will not, unless very closely watched, try to reestablish their own social dominion. But if they try to do that, or even a merely serious suspicion arose of their trying to do so, we should merely all the workmen and all the peasents against us. In other words, if any intervention has to come, it must start from the very outset in conjunction with people, who have the confidence of the country — the moderate Socialists and radicals in the towns and the peasent radicals in the villages. The presence of a Count Julius Károlyi or a Count Teleki would merely be a handicap to us." PRO FO 371. Austria—Hungary (WS) 1919. f. 1193—101 018. Az FO megjegyzései a feljegyzéshez a Párizsban tárgyaló Balfour számára: "I need not emphasize the importance of reaching a decision on this question without delay. Unless the Bolshevik regime in Hungary is brought to an end in the near future, it is clear that Austria and Czecho-Slovakia will be overhelmed and that any proposals for the rehabilitation of the former will be rendered useless. I would also desire to draw your attention to the serious responsibility, which H. M. Gt. are incurring in respect of the property and interests of British subjects in Hungary eventually confiscated by the Hung. Gt. and which will totally lost to their owners, unless some steps are taken to preserve them in the near future.