István Kertész (diplomat)
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István Kertész was a Hungarian diplomat who represented Hungary
during the peace talks following World War II.
to surrender to the Allied powers in order to avoid further damage to the country.
After the war, Kertész opposed the Soviet take over of Hungary and tried to avert the Allied demand to expel the German minority from Hungary.
In 1946, Kertész represented the Hungarian government at the Paris Peace Conference.
Later, he fled from Hungary and immigrated to the United States
, where he lectured on diplomacy and international relations.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
during the peace talks following World War II.
Biography
During the Second World War, worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1943-1944, made efforts to convey the intentions of Admiral Miklós HorthyMiklós Horthy
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944. Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary" .Admiral Horthy was an officer of the...
to surrender to the Allied powers in order to avoid further damage to the country.
After the war, Kertész opposed the Soviet take over of Hungary and tried to avert the Allied demand to expel the German minority from Hungary.
In 1946, Kertész represented the Hungarian government at the Paris Peace Conference.
Later, he fled from Hungary and immigrated to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, where he lectured on diplomacy and international relations.
Works
- Stephen Kertesz, Diplomacy in a Whirlpool (Greenwood Press, London 1974, reprint of the 1953 edition)
- Stephen Kertesz, Diplomacy in a Changing World (Greenwood Press, London 1974, reprint of the 1959 edition)
- Stephen Kertesz, “The Expulsion of the Germans from Hungary: A Study in Postwar Diplomacy”, The Review of Politics, Vol. 15, no. 2 (April 1953) pp. 179-208
- Stephen Kertesz (ed.), Nuclear Non-Proliferation in a World of Nuclear Powers (Notre Dame, IN, 1967)
- Stephen Kertesz, The Last European Peace Conference, Paris 1946, Conflict of Values (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985) http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/lasteu/lasteu.pdf
- Stephen Kertesz, Between Russia and the West: Hungary and the Illusions of Peacemaking, 1945-1947 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984)
For further reading
- Kenneth Thompson, Diplomacy and Values: The Life and Works of Stephen Kertesz in Europe and America (University Press of America, 1984)