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

Appendix III. Parliamentary debates

i971 the spirit of the will to live, if we let ourselves be led in unified force by the same calm, dignified and considerate action with which he led us, — then we shall solve these problems. Therefore I turn specially to this House with the request that this issue be permitted to follow the regular course of procedure as befits the dignity of the subject ; first of all before the Foreign Affairs Committee, the special forum entitled primarily to deal with this problem, there should be opportunity for debate. Concurrently with this, the Peace Delegation will this afternoon consider what reply should be given to the Peace Conference. Parliament is confronted with another difficulty, namely, with the necessity of devoting its time to this subject again at a later date when the legislature is complete, — at least as complete as is allowed by the tragic state of our country — when we shall have with us the deputies to be elected in TransTisza and when the deputies from the Baranya and other now occupied districts will take their places. (Approval.) Here I wish to mention that the Peace Delegation again sent a telegram the day before yesterday to Paris urging the immediate evacuation of the Baranya districts . .. 3. Excerpts from the Minutes of the National Assembly, 47th Meeting, May 26, 1920. Records of the National Assembly, vol. 3, pp. 84 ff. The Speaker : The Minister for Foreign Affairs wishes to speak. (Hear! Hear!) Count Paul Teleki, Minister for Foreign Affairs: It is my duty, on behalf of the Government, to make the following report to the House. (Hear! Hear!) Since the occasion on which I had the opportunity to present and explain to the House the revised peace conditions, which were handed to us as final, both the Peace Delegation and the Government, during the time limit given, examined with the greatest care the text of the peace treaty, the Allied comments thereon and the accompanying letter transmitted with it. The Peace Delegation, whose task it was to appraise the treaty as a whole and in detail, to judge whether this peace was at all acceptable to Hungary and whether its terms could be fulfilled, was forced to the conclusion that the treaty was unacceptable and impossible of fulfilment. Consequently the Peace Delegation, refusing to