TRIANON THROUGH BRITISH EYES
BY SIR BRYAN CARTLEDGE
(Talk given at the ‘Quintess Club’ in Budapest, Hungary, on 18 May 2011)
On the 4 th June, 1920, at 4.15pm on a fine, sunny afternoon, a small group of Hungarian officials arrived by car at the entrance to the Grand Trianon Palace, behind the Palace of Versailles, twenty kilometres from Paris. They were led by Ágoston Benárd, Hungarian Minister of Welfare and Labour, and a senior diplomat, Alfred Drasche Lázár. Fifteen minutes later, the delegation re emerged from the Palace, having signed a Treaty which formally ended the state of war between Hungary and the Allied powers principally France, Great Britain, the United States of America and Italy