This book deals with the relationship of Britain and Hungary during
the crucial years 1938-1941. In addition to archival research in
London and Budapest, mostly about the relations of the governments,
Ban's work broadens into political, social, intellectual and
cultural history. This is one of its exceptional assets, including
materials hitherto overlooked or disregarded, as it relates to more
than diplomatic history - even though, in dealing with the latter
too, Ban's mastery of archival and other evidence is
extraordinarily valuable. From 1938 to 1941 both Hungarian
ambitions and Hungarian society were divided. The principal
ambition was still to revise the frontiers imposed on Hungary by
the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. However, at the same time, a
minority of Hungarians (including Prime Minister Teiki as well as
many officials of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry) recognised that
at least equally important as the cause of frontier revision was
the protection and revision of as much Hungarian independence as
was possible in the shadow of an immensely powerful and dominant
Germany. This division of attitudes, ideas and purposes ran through
the society and bureaucracy of Hungary at lar"
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