Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)
Documents
1920 467 No. 467. 443o/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Military Representative of Great Britain in Budapest, General Gorton. BUDAPEST, July 17, 1920. The Peace Treaty having been signed by Hungary, I had much pleasure in learning through a note dated the 10th July 1 of His Britannic Majesty's acting High Commissioner 2 that His Britannic Majesty's Government were prepared to grant diplomatic visas to Members of Diplomatic Missions as also to regular diplomatic couriers in respect of journeys on official business, and that this arrangement would be put into immediate effect, so soon as the Hungarian Government was prepared to grant reciprocal treatment. I did not fail to reply to this gratifying readiness of His Britannic Majesty's Government by the immediate acceptance of their obliging offer in my note No. 20.121/1. a. addressed on the 14th inst. 3 to His Britannic Majesty's acting High Commissioner. In consequence of this agreement there exists at the present moment between the United Kingdom and Hungary as to the treatment of their couriers a reciprocity consisting in the mutual obligation to grant the necessary visas. The unregulated state of the question of the necessary formalities caused till now some regrettable incidents not only to the couriers of H. B. M.'s High Commission but also to those of H. B. M.'s Military Representative. I am sincerely desirous of doing all in order to prevent the repetition of such occurrences. This endeavour induces me to propose to you on the basis of the above mentioned reciprocity the introduction of the same formalities of visas etc. in respect to the couriers of His Britannic Majesty's Military Representative which are about to be put into operation in regard to the couriers of His Britannic Majesty's High Commission. I do so more especially as it would hardly be possible to treat the couriers of H. B. M.'s Military Representative in a manner different from those of H. B. M.'s High Commissioner. Besides I am aware that the courier 1 Supra, Doc. No. 43g. 3 Supra, Doc. No. 453. 2 Athelstan-Johnson. 30*
