Századok – 2001

TANULMÁNYOK - Urbán Aladár: A Miniszteri Országos Ideiglenes Bizottmány működése (1848 március-április) I/3

32 URBÁN ALADÁR not content with the developments in Pozsony. They vainly awaited the parliament's transfer to Pest. They attributed it to the parliament's "indolence" that the government had still not been formed one week after the revolution. In order to calm down the radicals as well as to represent the future government on 23 March Batthyány, with the consent of palatine Stephen, appointed Gábor Klauzál (the future minister of industry and trade), Bertalan Szemere (later minister of domestic affaires) and Ferenc Pulszky (later secretary of state in the ministry of finances) as members of the Temporary Ministerial Committee with full powers. The study follows the activity of this Committee. Upon the basis of recently published sources it analyses the Committee's cooperation with the different governmental organs at Buda (Lieutenancy, Chamber), and its modus vivendi with the military headquarters (General-Kommando) thanks to which it was possible to avoid conflicts between the army and the national militia. The Committee was likewise accepted by the Board to Maintain the Order, which had been formed in the days of the revolution, and, contrary to former opinions, no rivalry developed between the two bodies. Since from the end of March the provincial authorities sent their reports to the Committee, the minister of domestic affairs of the new government had full information about the morale of the people as well as about the movements of the former tenant-peasants and the ethnic minorities.