Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 2, 1921 (Budapest, 1946)

Documents

1921 let us know whether conversations between us and the Rumanians are possible and promise results.

1 No. 16. 53/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky. [TRANSLATION} Code telegrams Nos. 6-9. BUDAPEST, January 7, 1921. With reference to my code telegram No. 2—3 dated the third inst.

2 you are requested to transmit to the Conference of Ambassadors the following note in reply to their Note of December 23 concerning the evacuation of Western Hungary.

3 [There follows mutatis mutandis the text of Doc. No. 44. ] At the same time I beg to inform you that I approve of the arguments used to Mr. Peretti, as reported in your code telegram No. 543 on December 28." You are requested to make it understood in your conversations with competent factors of French Government circles that the solution of the question of Western Hungary against the interests of Hungary would make any French orientation in our foreign policy completely impossible. Exclusively for your personal information, I may tell you that the Hungarian Government does not intend to comply with any demand which may be made for the evacuation of Western Hungary. If the Allied Powers should attempt to obtain the evacuation by effective pressure or force, it has not yet been decided what degree of resistance should be offered. These instructions ought to have been taken to Paris by Mr. Halmos who arrives there on Sunday

0 but the dispatch of the same was delayed for technical reasons. Mr. Halmos, who drafted the note, is authorised to show it to Mr. Millerand before handing it over. If he wants to make some modifications after their interview you are requested to ask for fresh instructions by wire.

6 1 Cf. infra, Docs. Nos. 32 and 47. 2 Supra, Doc. No. 3. 3 Vol. I, Doc. No. 879. 4 Vol. I, Doc. No. 885. 6 January 9. " Cf. infra, Doc. No. 20.