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

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1920 223 the rights of free speech, free press and popular meeting for people of all political and religious views. We especially appeal on behalf of the former Commissars of the Soviet Government now on trial. We warn the Hungarian Government that a continuance of the present policy of persecution directed against the Hungarian labour movement will prevent the resumption of friendly relations between the British and Hungarian peoples and may give rise to an agitation against the conclusion of peace with the present Hungarian government or at least the refusal of any material aid in the economic recovery of Hungary. On behalf of the Parliamentary Committee of the British Trade Union Congress : James Henry Thomas, member of parliament, chairman; Charles Bowermann, member of parliament, secretary; on behalf of the Labour Party Executive Committee: W. H. Hutchinson, Chairman ; Arthur Henderson, member of parliament, secretary. No. 184. 1498/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Somssich, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Rome, Count Nemes. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 8. BUDAPEST, March 13, 1920. I received the following code telegram from the Peace Delegation : „Despite mildly favourable impressions obtained in course of our private negotiations, more important French newspapers and London Times report that London Conference rejected Nitti's proposal supporting Hungary and decided in favour of the original peace conditions. It is not impossible that by taking an intransigent position Principal Allies seek to provoke our refusal to sign the treaty and thus to create a new situation which would better enable them to make concessions to us despite their obligations to their small allies.

1 Obviously, we will be faced with a decision of very grave importance, since our refusal to sign the 1 Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia.