VDM Balogh, M: The Road to the Hungarian-American Claims Settlem

The topic of this book is the Hungarian-American Claims Settlement of 1973 and the negotiations that led to its conclusion. It starts out with a survey of the main phases of Hungarian foreign policy in the twentieth century and the five most important problems in Hungarian-American relations after the Revolution of 1956. Among these were several unsettled financial claims, some of them dating back to the interwar period. The road to settling these claims proved to be longer than first thought. In this book the process of the improvement of the relations of the two countries is examined focusing mainly on primary sources.