Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 17. The Hungary of Trianon from the Election of the Regent to the Last Year of Peace (1920-1938). László Baják

Enamel wall-plaque for the Csongrád county headquarters and certificate of the Knightly Order of Vitéz ('Brave'), 1921 shattering the antagonistic Little Entente alliance and peaceful revision. First he approached the Soviet Union in order to exercise pressure on Romania, but Horthy's anticommunist attitude meant that attempt ended in failure. After this, Bethlen tried to make a treaty with Yugoslavia, the weakest link in the Little Entente, but this would have damaged Italy's interests as a power and so Mussolini immediately intervened. He offered Bethlen an advantageous treaty if he would drop the Yugoslav connection. With the signing of an Italian-Hungarian Treaty of Friendship in 1927 followed in by a similar Polish-Hungarian agreement in 1928, Hungary escaped from its condition of utter isolation.