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

Documents

1920 463 to establish regulations and administration without giving opportunity to a riparian state to express its views. The questions involved are technical and the experiences and necessities of the riparian states are prime considerations for this conference. No. 462. 4493/pol. The President of the International Danube Commission, Admiral Troubridge, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki. BUDAPEST, July 16, 1920. I much regret that the Serbian ships were detained here en route for Vienna as it has caused many complications on the Danube and is contrary to the Treaty Clauses which guarantee free transit. I am endeavouring by a personal effort to procure the release of thirty-two ships and slepps which the S. H. S. State has arrested at Baja as a reprisal, and I fear that, as many of them are Roumanian property, there will be a further blockade in Rumania. The wellbeing of all the Danubian population is so involved in the question of free transit that I venture to ask your help to avert any such action on the part of Hungary, whatever may be the illegal and anti-treaty course pursued in other countries. My enquiries in Vienna proved to me that the Austrian Governement is quite incapable of contending with the International Trade Union Society in Amsterdam. No. 463. 20.677/10. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Dr. Gratz. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 197. BUDAPEST, July 17, 1920. Replying to your code telegram No. 307.

1 We have no objection against the proposal No. 1 made by the trade unions. xSupra, Doc. No. 458.