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. 97 Delegation ; and although the plenary sitting may, and very likely will, eventually over-ride the decision of the Committee, it would be idle to deny that His Excellency's prestige must to a certain extent suffer. Moreover there is little doubt that during the last week or so the Debates on the Address in the Hungarian Diet have not tended to strengthen Mr. Tisza, who has again had to exert all his eloquence to dissipate the dangerous effect of the assertions that he and Count Andrassy have an understanding with Russia ; upon which their foreign policy is based. Mr. Tisza made a brilliant speech the day before yesterday, which even his enemies admit to have been one of his happiest efforts ; but for the reasons already given I am unable to enter into a detailed report of it. I have the honour etc. No. 75. Buda Pesth, Nov. 27, 1878. (Confidential.) Sir, There was a crowded attendance of the public at the sitting of the Austrian Delegation yesterday, it being expected that the Government proposals, which had been rejected by the Financial Committee, would come on for discussion in pleno, and that Count Andrassy would make a further statement. The sitting was, however, of short duration, as His Excellency simply explained that the action of the Committee would necessitate a consultation of the Advisers of the Crown, and proposed an adjournment till the 28th; or in case of need, till the 29th instant. This was at once agreed to, and the Delegation rose. Your Excellency will have learned from the public prints the nature of the deadlock into which the conduct of business has fallen, and the details of which I was unable to develop in the meagre summary of the debate which was all that time permitted me to forward in my Despath No. 74 of the day before yesterday. The crisis is so interesting and so important in its relation to the working of the complicated machinery by which this Empire is administered, that I now propose to enter at greater length into a consideration of its merits. How far Count Andrassy is responsible for the delay in communicating the Treaty of Berlin to the respective Legislatures, is a matter upon which it is of course impossible to obtain any precise information. There seems to be a general consensus of opinion that the delay in both cases was ill-advised. There is no apparent reason why the Treaty should not have been laid before the Reichsrath and the Reichstag immediately on their assembling ; its being provisionally withheld only provoked an irritation which complicated still further the already difficult position of the Government. The Constitution of each division of the Empire provides for the communication of Treaties to the respective Legislatures ; and as the Foreign Policy of the Government must of necessity have formed at some time or another the subject of debate, it would seem that any apparent hindrance placed by the Administration in the way of free and immediate discussion was a strategic indiscretion, calculated to intensify ulterior opposition. The result in the case of the Austrian Delegation was certainly unexpected by the Government. Count Andrassy was undoubtedly