Tilkovszky Loránt: Pál Teleki 1879-1941. A biographical sketch - Studia historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 86. (Budapest, 1974)
TT: PÁL TELEKI ____ (1879— 1941 ) STUD1AJL J_I STORICA Pál Teleki was one of the most Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae яг __ During his first premiership (1920—21) he contributed to the consolidation of the counterrevolutionary system. Later, he devoted most of his time and energy to inaugurate a territorial revision of the Peace Treaty of Trianon. His revisionist ideas, however, reached the threshold of realization through the forcible awards of the Axis Powers instead of the common decision of the leading European powers. Teleki was aware of the dangers of the situation: during his second premiership in 1939 he emphasized that Hungary must not recover her prewar territories at the expense of a one-sided and unconditional German-oriented alignment; at the same time, he trieri to check the advance of right-wing extremists in the internal political arena. Although evoking illusions home and abroad, his ideas had been doomed to frustration, and in tin- final T TilknvSTlfV issue this was the cause of his " ' suicide m 1941, in the days of the Yugoslavian conflict. PAL TELEKI (1879-1941) A Biographical Sketch -~*~ AKADÉ.MIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest