Századok – 1937

Pótfüzet - HEGEDÜS LORÁNT: Lord Beaconsfield politikai ügynökének jelentései gróf Andrássy Gyula és Tisza Kálmán politikájáról a keleti válság idejében 576–616

84 HEGEDŰS bORÁNT. [62] bution of subventions to the Catholics. It is known that he aspires to be named Civil Governor of Bosnia in the event of the annexation of that Province to this Empire. I have the honour, etc. No. 33. Buda Pesth, May 21, 1878. (Secret.) Sir, At 8.30 p. m. this evening I sent Your Excellency the following telegram in cypher : "I have sent following to the Foreign Office : Secret. Hungarian Prime Minister in speaking to me to-day of Count Schouvaloff's mission, complained that the action of Austria-Hungary had been impeded by the constant refusal of Her Majesty's Government to declare explicitly whether in certain eventualities they would make war against Russia ; and by the apprehension that England might throw over Austria and come to a separate agreement with Russia. I answered that I could not understand how His Excellency could believe that Her Majesty's Government were making extensive military preparations merely for show, or that there could be any question of England's destroying a Power with whom she had contracted an Alliance." I have the honour, etc. No. 34. Buda Pesth, May 21, 1878. (Confidential.) Sir, M. Tisza asked me this afternoon whether I had any news of the result of Count Schouvaloff's mission to St Petersburgh ; and said that it had always seemed to him that England, whose policy of sagacious selfishness ("sage égoisme") he could not help admiring, would end by coming to a separate understanding with Russia. He complained that the action of Austria-Hungary had been hampered by the impossibility of obtaining an assurance from England that in certain eventualities she would go to war with Russia ; and he hinted that the Imperial Government had never been convinced that at a given moment, when England had secured her own interests, she might not throw this Country over altogether, and thus expose the Austro-Hungarian Empire to all the bitterness of Russian rancour. I hardly felt that my position justified me in retorting, as I wished to do, that Count Andrassy's dealings with Her Majesty's Government had been characterized for more than a year by constant equivocation. I contented myself with saying to the Prime Minister that Her Majesty's Government had from the outset declared that the Eastern Question was one to be settled by Europe collectively, and not by any of the Powers individually, and that they could not therefore make a separate arrangement with Russia. That Her Majesty's Government could not have been expected to make any official declaration to the Austro-Hungarian Government that they would go to war, unless the Austro-Hungarian Government on their part declared their readiness to enter into a similar engagement. That had Austria done this, and become the Ally of Great Britain, she would have run no risk of being deserted ; and I did not suppose