The Hungarian Independence Movement – Excerpts: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1936–41
The Hungarian Independence Movement – Excerpts: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1936–41

Summary/Abstract: Having obtained my two doctor’s diplomas, during the next fourteen years I spent most of my time outside Hungary, first in post-graduate studies abroad, then in the Hungarian diplomatic corps. It was in the autumn of 1935 that I was transferred from North America to the Foreign Ministry in Budapest. The main reason for my transfer was the person of Mr Ewald Ammende, head of the Bureau for Minorities at the League of Nations in Geneva. During an official tour of the United States Mr Ammende stopped for a few days in Chicago, Illinois, where he had a long conversation with me in the presence of some of my Scandinavian colleagues in the neighbouring city of Evanston. In the course of our meeting, Mr Ammende arrived at the conclusion that in view of certain shortcomings he had observed in the Hungarian Foreign Ministry during his numerous visits to Budapest my early transfer would be beneficial to Hungarian diplomacy.

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