Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)
Documents
1920 141 now been given by the Rumanian Government for the evacuation of the territory to be returned to Hungary. The Hungarian Government is gratified to learn that the Allied Powers finally succeeded in inducing Rumania to withdraw from the unlawfully occupied Hungarian territories. I wish to express, in the name of the Hungarian Government, my sincere appreciation for Your Excellency's successful intervention in this matter and for the information which you communicated to me. The Hungarian Government will naturally take all measures for the protection of the life and property of the few thousand Hungarian nationals belonging to the Rumanian race and of foreign nationals who reside in the territories to be evacuated. At the same time, I should like to call Your Excellency's attention to the fact that, according to numerous reports received by the Government, the Rumanians committed, during their unlawful occupation lasting several months, great many atrocities against the overwhelmingly Magyar population of these territories and gravely injured their properties by ruthless requisitions. It is therefore conceivable that the Rumanians may, now that they have to evacuate this land, take away in the last minute even what they were unable to appropriate heretofore. On behalf of the Hungarian Government, I appeal urgently to Your Excellency's kindness to intervene with His Majesty's Government in order that an Allied Military Mission, preferably under British command, be sent to the territories to be evacuated which could prevent any attack by the withdrawing Rumanian troops against the life and property of the Hungarian population. I also take the liberty of calling your attention to a telegraphic report I received today from Paris according to which the Rumanian Prime Minister,' Mr. Vaida-Voevod, sought the permission of the French Government to continue the occupation of the Tisza-line on the ground that Rumania needs this in view of the threat of bolshevism. 1 I avail myself, etc. 2 Cf. Appendix I, entry of February 1, 1920.
