UN ATENTAT CARE N-A MAI AVUT LOC: MIȘCĂRILE RADICALE UNGARE ÎMPOTRIVA FAMILIEI REGALE A ROMÂNIEI (1922) – DOCUMENT
AN ATTACK THAT HAS NO LONGER TAKEN PLACE: HUNGARIAN RADICAL MOVEMENTS AGAINST THE ROYAL FAMILY OF ROMANIA (1922) – A DOCUMENT

Summary/Abstract: On November 7, 1922, the Directorate of Police and General Security sent to the head of the Special Security Service (Siguranța), in strict confidence, a copy of a report containing „relations with the Hungarian irredentist organization, which tried to endanger the lives of sovereigns“. Between June and July 1922, an attack was allegedly carried out on the Royal Family of Romania, the basic idea of the assassination group being that Queen Maria was „the main culprit for the misfortunes that befell Hungary“, and that through the influence on the Great Powers, Greater Romania was born. According to the Siguranța informations, the members of the Royal Family were the most targeted by such dangers, but on the list of possible targets were other political figures from Romania. The purpose of such actions, in addition to punish for losing Transylvania by Hungary, was to discourage Romania from intervening in the favor of the its allies from the Little Entente, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, where Budapest had plans to destabilize and encourage autonomous movements. It is obvious that the potential attacks against members of the Royal Family have not taken place, but the document found in the Archives of the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (ACNSAS) gives us a series of interesting information about the perception of the Romanian Security Service (Siguranța) on radical movements from Hungary and about the methods by which such an action would have been set up.

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