Diplomáciai Iratok Magyarország Külpolitikájához 1936-1945, 5. kötet

Iratok - I. A nyugati offenzíva hatása a magyar külpolitikára (1940. május 11.—1940. június 26.)

Kérte, hogy olvassam el még előtte. Ez megtörtént és következőket fűztem hozzá: You know our situation and our dilemma, which could be called dramatic. The question is, for us, not to keep and save our independence and national freedom, which would be endangered by a march of the Germans through our country. We are always ready to defend our freedom to the last, but I could not find a single Hungarian who would defend Roumania against the Germans or against anybody else. (O'M : The difficulty of your situation is known and appreciated.) T: May be, but I see, that nothing has changed. I know that there are sympathies for us in Gr. Britain. (O'M : Very great sympathies!) T : But officially, I see, you are still considering us as „enemies". During 20 years neither you nor anybody else cared to create a just arrangement and a possible atmosphere in this part of Europe and now you want us to [save] the Roumanians with our own blood! You did not care about any [thing] and left things running and developing by themselves. You did not stop Hitler at his first move, what would have been the only clever thing for you, as I did it in 1921 with the Yougoslaves, who suddenly advanced some 25 kilometers from the demarcation line. They were strong, we had hardly some soldiers, but I marched up with 3 batallions and managed to stop that Yougo colonel at the beginning. He went back. This is an example — I told you already, that our reason to ourselves is much stronger, because much more vital than any neutrality, but that I refuse to tell more and to give any declaration or promise. I see that our situation is not understood and this is a deception for me, who is known not to be progerman, but Hungarian. So much that I personally declare to that I shall never ask anything from England. Another prime minister may do. Some days ago Mr de Vienne,

3 who is a friend of Hungary, asked me before leaving, I should, though he does recognize, that I cannot give him a declaration on the subject, tell him something what he may do [in] our favour, so that we in case of the victory, which he takes as granted, should not be put in the same pot with the Germans, and should be able to assure something of our revindications. I did thank him for his sympathy, but asked him not to do anything, since Transylvania given us back by France as a gift or reward is from our national point of view of just as little value as a Transylvania given to us back as a gift of the Germans! I do not want gifts from anybody, neither from France or Great Britain nor from Germany or Italy

... I see, így folytattam, that the way we have to go is still very difficult, because 1919 mentality prevails, but we have to go it alone the long it shall be. O'Malley felhívta figyelmemet arra, hogy levele formája „private" és ez jóakaratú megkülönböztetés, de én azt mondottam: I am no diplomat, only a simple Hungarian, and it's my own feelings I express. 1 De Vienne budapesti látogatásával kapcsolatban lásd DIMK IV. 596. sz. iratát. 118