Hungarian Chamber Research Articles

Career Planning & Development

In April 1975 a Round Table on Career Development in European Enterprises was organised by the International Labour Office, in collaboration with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce. In mid‐1976 ILO published the main papers in a report called Career Planning and Development. Last month we published two extracts from this report. The second extract was from a case study of Hungary and this month we continue Dr Horvath's illustration of a socialist career development system. The report of 140 pages is available from ILO, CH‐1211, Geneva 22 or from local branches at 15 Swiss Francs or equivalent. ISBN 92–2–101447–9

Endre Szervánszky

Endre Szervánszky (b. 1911) is one of the outstanding figures on the Hungarian musical scene since Bartók and Kodály. He had his first notable success with his first string quartet. When this was performed by the Végh Quartet in Budapest in 1943, the distinguished music critic Dénes Bartha wrote: “The quartet must be considered by far the best, most original, forceful and mature creation of contemporary Hungarian chamber music”. Completed five years earlier, in 1938, it was Szervanszky's first work of significance, and although he modestly described it in the printed programme as an “essay on Bartók”, it already gives clear evidence of his creative individuality. For various reasons however, including of course the war, he did not go on to any comparable achievement until after 1945, although he did write a number of minor works for piano (Sonatina, Little Suite), as well as a Sonata for violin and piano (1945), of somewhat atonal character.

Decisions of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in “Comecon” Arbitrations

Decisions of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in “Comecon” Arbitrations

Organisation and Activity of the Court of Arbitration of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce

Organisation and Activity of the Court of Arbitration of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce

Reconstruction of the Hungarian Parliament

Since the revolution of 1918 the Hungarian Chamber of Magnates, noted among upper chambers for its longevity, has been in a state of suspended animation. Unlike the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, which disappeared under the tidal wave of revolution at the outset of the Karolyist régime, it never was formally dissolved. Both houses of the Hungarian parliament, yielding to political realities, suspended their sessions and disbanded, many of the members of the upper chamber scurrying to regions under Allied occupation for protection against possible excesses of the revolution. Following the brief interlude of extra-constitutional Karolyist republicanism, under the legislative auspices of the Hungarian National Council, came the communist revolution which swept before it all remnants of the older constitutional structure. But not for long. On the collapse of the Hungarian Commune it became the onerous task of the Allied Governments to find, or to create, a constituent authority capable of assuming unreservedly the obligations of peace-making and domestic reconstruction. The First National Assembly, elected by decree of Stephen Friedrich, then the liaison between the Hungarian nationalists and the Great Powers in Paris, was the result. This single-chambered body, distinctly smaller than the old Chamber of Deputies because of the territorial reduction of Hungary, became, for the purposes of the Allied Governments, the sole repository of national power, and was acknowledged by them, as well as by the nation itself, to have constituent authority.