At 6 PM on November 5th, 2019, we host the forty-seventh installment of the VERITAS Debate Nights series at the VERITAS home office on Zsil Street. The title of the debate is Jurist, Intellectual, Diplomat and Press Agent: Antal Ullein-Reviczky and the Times He Lived In. Professor Tibor Frank (Eötvös Loránd University) and our colleague András Joó familiarize the audience with the topic, while VERITAS Head of Institute Gábor Ujváry leads the discussion.
Location: VERITAS Research Institute and Archives, Zsil utca (Street) 2–4, Budapest
A few days after the event, photography and video of the event will be made available on the VERITAS website. Please be informed that photographs and videos of earlier VERITAS Debate Nights may also be accessed in archived format on our website.
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Antal Ullein-Reviczky is one of the most interesting individuals of the Horthy Era. He was a professor, diplomat, author of a study on the territorial provisions of the Treaty of Trianon and author of a famous post-WWII memoir that served as an apologia for Hungary’s foreign policy mistakes committed during the war. During the calamitous years of war, Ullein-Reviczky played a key role in trying to navigate Hungary out of the war. He also exerted great influence as the press agent for two different prime ministers. During Miklós Kállay’s prime ministership, he held regular meetings with the editors-in-chief of Hungary’s major newspapers, briefing them on Kállay’s prevailing motives and intentions. In September 1943, he was appointed ambassador and transferred to Stockholm. He resigned in the wake of the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, and together with other diplomats who had also rejected the new puppet government headed by Döme Sztójay, formed the Ambassador Committee, which operated in the interests of an independent Hungary. In the final act of the war, Stockholm became an especially important place. Ullein-Reviczky met Raoul Wallenberg and representatives of the Office of Strategic Services, the American intelligence agency.
The evening’s discussion focuses on Ullein-Reviczky’s role in WWII and his endeavors as press agent.
Source of photo: The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
