Századok – 1937

Pótfüzet - HEGEDÜS LORÁNT: Lord Beaconsfield politikai ügynökének jelentései gróf Andrássy Gyula és Tisza Kálmán politikájáról a keleti válság idejében 576–616

[65] BE ACONSFIELD ÜGYNÖKÉNEK JELENTÉSEI. 589 achieves in the forthcoming négociations some signal diplomatic triumph, his retention of office will in no wise depend upon Hungarian support ; while the chances for M. Tisza's continuance as Premier would be still worse. The Hungarians are always in extremes ; and pessimist opinions are now rampant. From every side I hear the most gloomy anticipations of the result of the Russian successes to Hungarian Independence ; and the apprehension is continually expressed that if even at the eleventh hour Count Andrassy were honestly to try to emancipate himself from the trammels of the Imperial Triple Alliance, he would find that his change of purpose came too late. I have the honour etc. No. 10. Buda Peath, February, 20, 1878. Sir, In the Lower House of the Diet yesterday the Prime Minister of Hungary, M. Tisza, replied to the interpellations on Eastern Affairs, of which notice had been given some time ago. M. Tisza had just previously been to Vienna, to concert with Count Andrassy and with Prince Auersperg the exact tenour of the explanations to be given. As soon therefore as he had received telegraphic information that the Prince was about to make his statement to the Austrian Representatives, M. Tisza announced his readiness to answer the Hungarian interpellations. His declarations were identical with those made at Vienna by the Austrian Premier ; and were very well received by the House. It is understood that the moment for making these simultaneous statements was chosen with reference to the date fixed by Prinee Bismarck for his own official utterance on the same subject; and that it was considered advisable that the Austrian and Hungarian speeches should appear to be entirely independent of anything that the German Chancellor might say. The tone of the "inspired" Hungarian journals -— such as the Pester Lloyd., Hon, and Ellenőr — continues to be fiercely warlike. I have the honour etc. No. 18. Buda Pesth, March 26, 1878. Sir, Prince Ghika and Monsr. Stourdza called upon me this morning, and said that they intended starting for Bucharest, via the Danube, tonight. They have seen the Hungarian Ministers, and most of the leading Deputies, and have arrived at the conviction that in the event of war between England and Russia it would be impossible for Count Andrassy to resist the determination of his Countrymen to take an active part in hostilities against the latter. I asked Prince Ghika whether he had elicited from M. Tisza any distinct enunciation on which he could base this expectation. He replied that he could not say that he had ; — that M. Tisza was very taciturn, and unwilling to pronounce himself upon the Roumanian Question ; —- but that the other Ministers, especially those of Commerce and Finance, had been more outspoken. The Members of the Diet whom he had seen had also expressed themselves in strong terms as to the impossibility of an acquiescence in the conditions of the Treaty of San Stefano ; and several deputations had