Levéltári Közlemények, 40. (1969)

Levéltári Közlemények, 40. (1969) 1. - TANULMÁNYOK ÉS FORRÁSOK A MAGYAR TANÁCSKÖZTÁRSASÁG TÖRTÉNETÉHEZ - Karsai Elek: Iratok a Magyar Tanácsköztársaság történetéhez angol levéltárakban / 137–158. o.

Iratok a Magyar Tanácsköztársaság történetéhez angol levéltárakban 151 B, Bern, 1919. március 28. Lord Acton berni brit meghatalmazott miniszter megküldi Balfournak, a párizsi békekonferencián tárgyaló brit delegátusnak Andrássy Gyula gróf memorandumát a magyarországi helyzetről The memorandum of Count Andrássy. Bolshevism tends towards world hegemony. Through his recent success Hungary has now become the decisive batfle-field of the great struggle. Should the Soviet Government acquire real power in Hungary it will be spread further. Vienna needs Hungarian agricultural products. In this case Austria cannot resist for any length of time. The peoples of these two countries have been linked together for so long that consolidated Hungarian Communism will drag Austria himself

... The germs of the disease will be brought into Bohemia by Czech army of occupation. The main object of the Hungarian Soviet will be to poison the minds of the soldiers of the armies of occupation in Hungary with new Bolshevist ideas. In Serbia there are many who are already threatening that they will put themselves under the protection of the Russian republic. Roumania surrounded by revolution will doubtless become its victim. Poland between two fires will hardly be able to resist long. In Germany the Spartakish movement could only be kept down so far through terrible fights. There is therefore a very great danger that Eastern and Central Europe will hurl itself against Western Europe, like a new Mongolian invasion under the leadership of Lenin

... We Hungarian landowners shall be ruined by Bolshevism and are ready to give a great deal for the fight against it, but if the condition of the given help would be that we should give up vital parts of Hungary, then we sooner decline help and be ruined ... Good commercial treaties and confederation that equally protects the sovereignity of each separate state will be more favourable for our neighbours also then a life and death struggle before the eyes of the common enemy (Bolshevism). The agreement ought to be made under the pressure of the danger immediately. As soon as the agreement has taken place, the Entente, by one of the great powers, should throw its military force before the Russian army can make use of the new situation. The command of the Allied troops must of course given to one of the great powers ... If

... it would be declared that the country will again be put under a serious blockade, if it remains under the bolshevist system, but that it willget at once all that is necessary, if it breaks with the Soviet Government, — and if it will be declared that this intervention does not intend to force any form of government in Hungary, but a freely elected National Assembly shall decide the fate and constitution of the nation, then it would be easy to achieve permanent favourable results even with a small army . .. ... The Western powers could as saviours of civilization and freedom create an alliance in the East under their leadership which would form a strong and compact union. PRO FO 371. Austria—Hungary (W3) 1919. —f. 1193—55 031. Az irat palliumán a következő feljegyzés áll: „He (Lord Acton) transmits a memorandum dealing with the situation in Hungary. The memorandum drawn up by Count Andrássy and received trough Monsieur Vályi. The copies of this memorandum would be sent to the American Legation and also in all probability to the French Embassy, provided that in the latter case an intermediary could be found who would transmit the document to Monsieur Clinchant

... I should further add that Count Andrássy has approached lord Acton indirectly with a view to his obtaining the support of Entente troops, as he himself believes that his own influence is strong enough to rally the moderate elements if furnished with such aid."