Külügyi Szemle - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet folyóirata - 2011 (10. évfolyam)
2011 / 4. szám - DIPLOMÁCIA- ÉS KÜLPOLITIKA-TÖRTÉNET - Sáringer János: Fejezetek a magyar külügyi igazgatás 1945 és 1948 közötti történetéből
Sáringer János After the Second World War, the Hungarian Foreign Office was set up to work with its interwar members and employees. However, a lot of new members with different backgrounds also gained positions with the approval and support of parties participating in the coalition government. Each party frequently pointed out as well as requested specified positions, ranks, departments, and foreign posts to be occupied by its preferred candidates. The personal staff of the ministry had been diluted to a great extent due to refilling of certain positions resulting from the political screenings in 1945, the so-called B-listing in 1946, the forced resignation of Ferenc Nagy in 1947 and due to a new wave of dismissals in 1948. In the meantime, several proposals were devised on the transformation of the Hungarian foreign administration by György Ottlik, József Száll, and in the form of an aide memoire compiled in Moscow. The Allied Control Commission enabled the initiation of the consolidation of the diplomatic relations of Hungary that had been realised to a certain extent until February, 1947. However, the organisational pattern of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had followed its interwar structure until 1949. Then it was reorganised horizontally - on the basis of the territorial principle - and vertically, according to the system of major territorial departments, both on the professional and the assistant levels. 156 Külügyi Szemle
