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

Documents

4 not in a position to decide questions of policy which will affect the future of the nation. Apparently this statement was understood since no questions of frontiers or alliances or any similar question have been raised during our negotiations. We obtained no concrete results at this first conference but I gained the impression that the Serbs are sympathetic toward our objectives. It will depend however on the question of whether the French Supreme Command will regard as sufficiently serious our action which the Serbs regard as too feeble. (At that date we had only about 4,000 men.) June 27. We urged the Serb Government to promote the travel of recruits from the southern part of Hungary to Szeged. We made representations in Warsaw concerning the education of Hungarian prisoners of war returning from Russia. June 28. The Minister for Foreign Affairs sent instructions to Dénes Pázmándy in Paris concerning the political situation. June 29. Protest was made to the French General Charpy concerning the unlawful requisitions of the Rumanians. We requested the Serb Government to permit Hungarian officers in Temesvár, who desire to enter the Hungarian national army, to come to Szeged. July I. We requested the French Legation in Vienna and Colonel Cuninghame to do what they could to protect Hungarian officers who take refuge in Vienna. July 2. Intervention in the interests of the liberation of Hungarian nationals from Rumanian prisons. Representations were made to the French to obtain the restoration of property taken away from schools. We have established information centers at Baja and in Vienna.