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

Documents

224 1920 No. 212. 2io8/pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Governement in Warsaw, Count Csekonics, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. SimonyiSemadam. [TRANSLATION! Code telegram No. 34. WARSAW, April 8, 1920. There is a plan to put the Czarist army of General Bredow (some 15.000 men, which withdrew to Polish territory) on ships at Várna and transport it from there to the Crimea where it could join the troops of General Denikin. The transportation from Poland to Várna would have to be through Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia because Rumania, despite Allied intervention, denied it permission for transit. The Warsaw representative of Mr. Sasonow requested me to ascertain whether the Hungarian Government would, in principle, permit the transit of these troops through Hungary. Details could be discussed later. Since these troops are engaged in the fight against bolshevism, I recommend that the requested permission be granted. No. 213. 2o6i/pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Government in Belgrade, Mr. Wodianer, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. SimonyiSemadam. [TRANSLATION] No. 28/pol. BELGRADE, April 8, 1920. I met today in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs the Czechoslovak Minister at Belgrade, Mr. Antal Kalina. In the course of our brief conversation Mr. Kalina expressed the view that, after the signature of the peace treaty, his Government would not be averse to return to Hungary, on the basis of mutual agreement, extensive territories inhabited by Magyar population. In this connection, I should like to report a similar rumour conveyed to me by Mr. Hertelendy, attaché of legation. He was invited a few days ago with several Yugoslav naval officers with whom he served during the war in the Austro-Hungarian navy. One of these officers told Hertelendy that, to his knowledge, the