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

Documents

1919 il The memorandum of the faculty of the University of Kolozsvár to the Peace Conference has been forwarded to General de Lobit. June 22. The Prime Minister, Count Julius Károlyi, addressed a note to General de Lobit concerning the hostile attitude of the French Government toward the Hungarian Provisional Government at Szeged. In the note, the Prime Minister frankly raised the question whether, in view of the obstacles put in our way, the situation could not be improved by the establishment of another government. June 23. Count Bethlen was requested by wire to send Dr. Gratz and Mr. Egry to Szeged to attend to certain financial problems affecting the Hungarian state. A note of protest against the atrocities at Apátfalva and concerning the treatment of Hungarian officers interned at Brassó was sent to General de Lobit. June 24. Representations were made to the Serbs concerning the urgent necessity for evacuation of school buildings. June 25. We requested the support of the Serb Government for Dr. Aurél Barta, who was appointed Commissioner for the county of Baranya, to prepare the military action be started from that territory. June 20—25. On the basis of French intervention referred to above, the Minister of War, Admiral Horthy, and Count Teleki journeyed to Belgrade to discuss the transfer of the seat of the Government to Baja. The two Ministers were received first by Mr. Gavrilovic, the acting Foreign Minister. At the beginning of our conversation, I explained the circumstances under which our government was formed and at once pointed out that ours is a provisional government only, formed for the purpose of eliminating bolshevism. Consequently we feel ourselves authorized only to carry out the military action necessitated by our objective and we are naturally 1*