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 153 8. Bukarest, 1919. június 6. Mr. Rattigan jelentése Greenley brit tábornok véleményéről a Magyar Tanácsköztársaság mielőbbi leverésének szükségességéről. (Részlet.) General Greenley tells me Lenin has published an order to Red troops to treat kindly in future all prisoners and that this has had bad effect in causing serious desertions from Kolchak's Army. If these continues he thinks latter may go pieces and Bolshevists would then be free deal with Roumania. For this reason he considers it essential to crush Hungarian Bolshevists beforet his can happen. In the circumstances I venture again to ask if some combined movement could not be made, such as I understand was recently proposed by General Franchet d'Esperay. Reply: I think we must leave this to be dealt with by the P. D. PRO FO 371. Austria—Hungary (W3) 1919. — f. 1193—87 230. 9. Belgrád, 1919. június 17. Sir С. des Gras belgrádi brit követ jelentése Horthy és Teleki belgrádi látogatásáról és a jugoszláv kormánnyal a Tanácsköztársaság katonai leverése tárgyában folytatott tárgyalásaikról (Részlet.) . .. Admiral Horthy and Comte Teleki told me that they had come here to enlist the sympathy of this Government and to obtain certain facilities of transit which would enable them to make a start in operations against the Bolsheviks . . . Through with comparativele few men at present, they hoped, and indeed appeared to count on a very considerably number of officers and men, now forced by circumstances and threats of odious reprisals against their families to serve in the Bolshevik ranks, coming forward to meet and join them ... ... I hear that they were received by the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was able to assure them on part of the Government of all the sympathy against Bolshevism. I gather that this Government would acquiesce in the granting of such facilities ... PRO FO 371. Austria—Hungary (W3) 1919. — f. 1193—93 699. 10. Párizs, 1919. május 9. A párizsi békekonferencia tárgyalása Magyarország gazdasági blokádja feloldásának lehetőségeiről (Részlet.) M. Seydoux "... Now that the Government of Béla Kun was about to fall, he thought that steps could be taken to remove all commercial restrictions. Hungary was self-supporting up to a certain point but the supply of food and raw materials was becoming an urgent problem

... After studying this question the Supreme Economic Council had decided to enquire of the Council of Foreign Ministers whether the time had not arrived for raising the blockade on Hungary. Furthermore, the Eastern Sub-Commission on the Blockade was taking measures to prevent the passage of food and other raw materials from Hungary into Russia. Mr. Hoover pointed out that the proposal referred to by M. Seydoux had been made by the Supreme Economic Council on the supposition that the Government of Béla Kun would fall at once. That had not yet happened, but the Supreme Economic Council asked for a mandate to act as soon as that Government should disappear. The information available went to show that two days earlier it appeared certain that the Government of Béla Kun would be upset. Unfortunately the invitation to Austria to attend the Peace Conference had been interpreted to include the Hungarian Government so that Bela Kun's Government had again been put on its feet

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