Életünk, 2000 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

2000 / 9. szám - Solymossy Péter: A méltatlanul mellőzött brit történész

October Fifteenth, A History of Modern Hungary 1929-45 (2 vols. 1956, 1961)

Independent Eastern Europe, with Alan Palmer (1962)

Hungary. A Short History (1962 edition 1, German 971)

The Habsburg Empire 1790-1918 (1968, 1971)

Maria Theresa and the House of Austria (1969)

The Habsburg and Hohenzollern Dynasties in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1970)

The House of Austria (1978)

’The Habsburg Dominions’, New Cambridge Modern History, VII.

Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History (eds. Lóránt Czigány and László Péter) to be published in 1998

JEGYZETEK

1 Eubank, Keith. Munich. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, 1963.

2 I. m. 257. o. Jn the early hours of March 15, Hungarian troops helped wipe out Ruthenia, the eastern remnant of Czechoslovakia. Hitler had invited the Hungarians to seize this strategic area. Admiral Horthy accepted the loot with joy.”

3 I. m. 242. o. „Over one million Slovaks and Ruthenes became Hungarians with no chance to protest.”

4 Carr, E. H. International Relations between the Two World Wars 1919-1939. London: Macmillen Academic and Professional Ltd., 1947.

5 I. m. 10-11. o. „The ancient kingdom of Hungary, of whose 17000000 inhabitant little more than half were Hungarian, had also dissolved into its ethnic components. The Treaty of Trianon confirmed the transfer of Slovakia to Czechoslovakia, of Croatia to Yugoslavia and Transylvania to Roumania. In the main these decisions were just. But the frontiers of Hungary, even more markedly than the eastern frontier of Germany, bear witness to a certain eagerness on the part of the treaty makers to stretch their principles wherever possible to the advantage of the Allied and the detriment of the enemy country. The cumulative effect of this elasticity was considerable; and full use has benn made by Hungarian propagandists of these minor injustices.”

6 Calvocoressi, Peter & Wint, Guy. Total Warr. Causes and Courses of the Second World War. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1972.

7 I. m. 80. o. „Slovakia... was much less developed than the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia which, under Austrian rule, had enjoyed considerable educational as well as industrial advancement. Consequently the Slovak parts of Czechoslovakia were largely administered by Czechs after independence and the Slovaks accused the Czechs with some degree of justice of being slow to remedy this imbalance.” Lásd még Carr, 38-40. o. és Eubank, 250-251. o.

8 Az 1941. március 27-i belgrádi katonai puccs idején brit titkosszolgálat 1940-ben alapított új szervezete, a SOE (Special Operations Executive) már számos ügynökkel rendelkezett Jugoszláviában, köztük volt a követség néhány beosztottja is. Érdekes módon a belgrádi ügynökök egyike éppen Robert Seton-Watson fia, a szintén történész Hugh Seton-Watson volt. Lásd Knoll, Hans. Jugoslawien in Strategie und Politik der Alliierten, 1940-1943. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1986. 144. o.

9 Péter László szerint téves az az állítás, hogy nem csak Seton-Watson és Wickham Steed, hanem Macartney is élesen kritizálta Bethlen téziseit.

10 Ford.: „Magyar és szlovák. Rivális követelések. Lehetőség igazságos revízióra.”

11 Péter László közlése.

12 Péter László is tanítványa volt.

13 Macartney, C. A. A History of Hungary. 1929-1945. New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc., 1956. Part I. Prelude to Trianon (=Trianon előjátéka), 5. o.

14 „As Hungarian revisionism will dominate our entire story, it will be well to emphasise at this point that the desire and determination to achieve some revision of this Treaty were nation-wide in Hungary throughout the entire period.”

15 Ez az elgondolás, mint tudjuk, teljesen irreális volt a szomszéd kisantant államok „semmit se vissza” politikája következtében.

16 Jt is completely untrue to say that revision was desired only by landowners who wanted their estates back, and it is not even more than a half-truth that the regime kept the revision

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