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. 85 that His Excellency could for a moment think that she would have been exposed to any such danger. And that as for the intention of Her Majesty's Government in certain eventualities, I was sure that His Excellency did not believe that England would have made such extensive and such costly military preparations for mere show ; or that he could doubt of the serious determination of Her Majesty's Government to resort to force if it should unhappily prove that Russia would not yield to diplomatie pressure. I have the honour, etc. No. 35. Buda Pesth, May 22, 1878. ( Secret.) Sir, At noon this day I sent Your Excellency the following telegram in cypher : "I have transmitted following telegram to Her Majesty's Government : Secret. In spite of the recent speech of the Hungarian Prime Minister, the leaders of the Opposition do not believe that Count Andrassy will loyally co-operate with Her Majesty's Government in exacting concessions from Russia. Their information from Berlin assures them that the Austro-Hungarian Government will implicitly follow Prince Bismarck's advice. Hungarian Diet will adjourn on Friday next till June 15th. I can see that all political parties here, Government and Opposition, seriously apprehend a separate understanding between England and Russia." I have the honour, etc. No. 36. Buda Pesth, May 22, 1878. (Secret and Confidential.) Sir, Your Excellency was recently pleased to summon me to Vienna, and to communicate to me the allegations brought against me by Count Andrassy, to the effect that I was engaged in conspiring with the Leaders of the Opposition in the Hungarian Diet against M. Tisza's Government. You were further so good as to inform me óf the manner in which you had met Count Andrassy's accusations against me, and of the language in which you had justified my relations with Hungarian Politicians. Upon this latter point I may be allowed to remark that two members of the Opposition with whom I am on terms of friendship, Count Lonyay and M. Bitto, are ex-Prime Ministers, with whom I have formerly had official relations, and with whom I have always been accustomed to discuss politics with the utmost freedom. They are both, like Count Albert Apponyi and M. Uermenyi, who have never yet been in office, sincere admirers of England, and anxious that the Foreign Policy of Austria-Hungary should be identified as closely as possible with that of Her Majesty's Government. M. Tisza has professed the same views : his Parliamentary supporters profess them : Count Andrassy does not, as far as I know, repudiate them. But if every one I have referred to were honest in these professions, I doubt whether we should have heard anything of a "conspiracy."