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

Documents

4i8 1920 Office into diplomatic representation. I informed Mr. Strimpl that Your Excellency is desirous to effect such a transformation and to confer on the chief officer of the agency the title „Representative of the Kingdom of Hungary"; this plan, however, could not be carried out as yet on account of the cabinet crisis. I also told him that in all likelihood I shall continue to be in charge of the office thus transformed, in which event my Government, following the customary diplomatic procedure, will naturally request an „agrément". Dr. Strimpl remarked spontaneously that in such a case the Czechoslovak Government would at once give an „agrément". We also discussed the question of the establishment of a Hungarian Legation. I pointed out that this question could be dealt with after the ratification of the peace treaty provided the Czechoslovak Government would assist us in finding appropriate quarters for the Legation. Dr. Strimpl replied that lack of housing presented his Government with an extremely serious problem in this respect, but that he would do his best to find a satisfactory solution, if not this year, certainly next spring or summer. No. 461. 20.507/10. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 381. BUDAPEST, July 16, 1920. You are requested to induce the competent authorities not to condition Hungary's invitation to the Danube conference on ratification of the peace treaty. You are to point to the physical impossibility of ratifying, by August 2nd, a treaty signed only in June. Neither the German nor the Austrian treaties were ratified in such a short time. Moreover, we are faced with a cabinet crisis and with other difficulties due to the continued occupation of Hungarian territories. It would be unjust to exclude Hungary, after she has signed the peace treaty, from deliberations by whose results she will be requested to abide. It would be contrary to every precedent