The Development of Czechoslovak, Polish and Hungarian Foreign Affairs Administration between the Two World Wars (1918 – 1939)
The Development of Czechoslovak, Polish and Hungarian Foreign Affairs Administration between the Two World Wars (1918 – 1939)

Summary/Abstract: After the short introduction to the history of Austro-Hungarian foreign affairs administration the paper focuses on the administrative development of the the Central European countries in the period between the two world wars. The Czechoslovak and Polish foreign affairs administration has formed dominantly on the basis of poliitical emigration and diaspora communities during the first world war. The Hungarian ministry of foreign affairs was established directly after the end of this war in december 1918, but the often changing governments reorganised this organ many times in unquiet 1919. The paper deals not only with the central level of foreign administration, but with the structure of the diplomatic and consular missions abroad too. Czechoslovakia and Poland had very good structure of the missions, because they were very active on the field of international relations in this time. These countries played important role inside the League of Nations too. The Post-Trianon Hungary needed the effective apparates too, but the foreign affairs administration was not very popular this time inside the country and its political life. Hungary was very active on the field of cultural diplomacy.

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