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

Documents

194 1920 plaints about the brutalities and requisitions of the Rumanians. Every movable object has been taken away. In the territories heretofore occupied, we find that only about twenty-five per cent of the arable land has been sown, for lack of seed. More than twenty per cent of the beasts of burden have been taken by the Rumanians. No. 175. 1358/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Somssich, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Rome, Count Nemes. [TRANSLATION! Code telegram No. 6. BUDAPEST, March 9, 1920. We have now reliable information that Mr. Nitti did say a word in London in favour of ameliorating the peace conditions for Hungary. You are requested to convey the thanks of the Hungarian Government and to prevail upon the Italian Government to continue their action in our interest. The Italians also intervened some time ago in favour of Bulgaria, but failed to follow up the first step. It is, therefore, desirable to keep their interest constantly alive. You should emphasize the favourable reaction toward Mr. Nitti's intervention in Hungarian public opinion where the sympathetic attitude of Italy is regarded as a manifestation of the traditional Italo-Hungarian friendship and as a guarantee for the improvement of the peace conditions. No. 176. 1443/pol, The Hungarian Delegate to the Interallied Mission for Western Hungary, Baron Villani, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Somssich. [TRANSLATION^ Code telegram No. 7. SOPRON, March 9, 1920. The new British member of the Interallied Mission, Captain White,

1 arrived yesterday from London. I had a long talk with 1 Recte: Gundry-White.