ABSTRACT
The change in Great Britain’s assessment of Hungary arose in November rather than October 1940. The breaking point came with Hungary’s accession to the Tripartite Pact.
The basic document of the Tripartite Pact was signed by representatives of Germany, Italy and Japan in Berlin on 27 September 1940. The signatories mutually recognized their respective leading roles in a ‘New Order’ in Europe and ‘Greater East Asia’. The accord was regarded as a precondition to ‘durable peace’, with the three parties undertaking to provide political, economic and military assistance to each other if attacked by a power not already in the European war or the Sino-Japanese conflict. The agreement made provision for the inclusion of other states.
