Hírünk és felelõsségünk. Egy szelektív idealista és egy kritikus barát írásai a magyarságról (1906–1945)
Prestige and Responsibility: The Selective Idealist and the Critical Friend

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present essay is to discuss Robert William Seton-Watson’s gradual estrangement from the Hungarian cause between 1906 and 1918 from a self-critical point of view, as well as to compare and contrast the two historians’ and specialists’ changing opinion on Hungary after WW1. It aims to prove that contrary to the conventional Hungarophobe-Hungarophile distinction, both scholars were highly critical of interwar Hungary: both with its political establishment and revisionist obsession. Thus, the fundamental difference between Seton-Watson and Macartney was much more their attitude to the successor states after 1920. The Oxford history professor remained loyal to the status-quo, becoming increasingly selective in his assessment of post-war events. On the other hand, as a minority expert, Macartney grew to be sceptical of the righteousness of the Versailles treaty, which resulted in his support for ethnic revision

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