〔研究ノート〕ラトヴィヤという国家の成立 ─ラトヴィヤ最初の外相メイローヴィッツ（Z. A. Meierovics）の活動から─

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  • Beginning of Latvian Statehood: From the Diplomatic Activities of the First Foreign Minister Z. A. Meierovics
  • ラトヴィヤ ト イウ コッカ ノ セイリツ : ラトヴィヤ サイショ ノ ガイショウ メイローヴィッツ(Z. A. Meierovics)ノ カツドウ カラ

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This paper attempts to make clear the integrity and the continuity of the statehood of the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika). Research shows that the British Government recognized Latvia de facto on 11, November 1918. Z. A. Meierovics (1887-1925), who had been an envoy to London from the Latvian (Lettish) Provisional National Council, received an official note signed by James Balfour on that date. In it the British government welcomes the state of Latvia and asserts that the British government is “glad to reaffirm their readiness to grant provisional recognition to the Lettish National Council as a de facto independent body until such time as the Peace Conference lays the foundations of a new era of freedom and happiness for your people.” 　　The Latvian People’s Council proclaimed Latvia’s independence on 18, November 1918, and on the next day Meierovics was appointed foreign minister. Most Latvian history textbooks for school children published after 1991 seem to exaggerate the achievement of independence as the fruit of step-by-step domestic and internal political efforts. 　　The author suggests that the above textbook descriptions of the achievement of Latvian statehood, when considered together with Meierovics’ activities abroad in London and Paris at the beginning of the Latvian statehood, show the fragile framework of the Latvian People’s Council.

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  • 学苑

    学苑 (940), 62-70, 2019-02-01

    昭和女子大学近代文化研究所

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