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

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1919 il of the Governing Council of Nagy Szeben as well as all securities, jewelry and cash on deposit, and all county funds for wards, in order to transport these elsewhere, according to instructions. The said plenipotentiary is empowered to carefully inspect every movable or immovable object included in the inventory of any of the above named offices and institutions. The Head of the said Ministry and the chief officers of the above named offices and institutions are herewith requested to put at the disposal of our plenipotentiary, bearer of this order, all information and all objects contained in their inventories in order to enable him to list the same. In case of active or passive resistance our plenipotentiary is authorized to invoke military assistance in order for him to accomplish his mission. [Seal of the Rumanian (Signed) Serbanescu Headquarters ] General. No. 4. 2843/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Lovászy, to the Hungarian Chargé d'affaires in Vienna, Mr. Marsovszky. [TRANSLATION) BUDAPEST, August 16, 1919. You are requested to present, on behalf of the Hungarian Government, the following note to the head of the Austrian Foreign Office:

1 „Mit Bedauern und mit Befremden hat die ungarische Regierung von dem Schritte der deutsch-österreichischen Regierung Kenntnis erhalten, wonach diese den Präsidenten der Friedenskonferenz Herrn Clemenceau um die Ermächtigung bat, die Ordnung und Ruhe in den westungarischen Komitaten durch Gendarmerie, Volkswehr und Sicherungstruppen sichern zu dürfen. Als Begründung führt die deutsch-österreichische Regierung in ihrer diesbezüglichen Note an, dass die dort versammelten 1 The German text of the note, contained in the original document, has not been translated.