Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)

Documents

1920 147 The reply

1 you gave to the Chancellor is approved and I should like to add only that the position I outlined in my code telegram No. 45

2 with respect to negotiations concerning Western Hungary is unchanged. Under no circumstances could we enter into negotiations concerning evacuation before the ratification of the peace treaty. No. 123. 750/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs

, Count Somssich to the Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Dr. Gratz. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 53. BUDAPEST, February 10, 1920. Counsellor of Legation Magyary, attached to our Legation in Belgrade, left his post on January 19th for Temesvár to attend his father's funeral. He has not yet returned to his post and it is believed that he may have been detained by the Rumanians. I have made representations to the Allied missions. You are requested to ask the intervention of Mr. Isopescu-Grecul, the Rumanian Minister in Vienna, to obtain the permission of the Rumanian authorities for Magyary to return to Belgrade. I expect a report concerning the steps you have taken. No. 124. 796/pol. The Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Dr. Gratz, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Somssich. [TRANSLATION Code telegram No. 73. VIENNA, February 11, 1920. I discussed Western Hungary with Chancellor Renner today and again ran into serious difficulties. Renner asserted that there is such terror in Western Hungary that a plebiscite would be an empty gesture no matter what guarantees were provided for it. He also expressed the belief that Hungary will ultimately acquisce in the loss of Western Hungary. I assured him 1 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 131. 2 Supra, Doc. No. 117. 10*