Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 2, 1921 (Budapest, 1946)
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1921 3i $ I replied that although the Peace Treaty had not yet come into force and the note had not created a new situation, the Government and the authorities would refrain from propaganda in the future as in the past, although unrestricted agitation on the part of the Austrians was going on inside as well as outside the country. I pointed out that the authorities have no power to prevent autonomous bodies, social organizations threatened in their vital interests and private individuals from protesting against the annexation of Western Hungary by Austria. The Mission is afraid of a coup de main similar to that at Fiume, to be organized by Baron Lehár. 1 No. 26. 141/pol. The Hungarian Delegate to the Interallied Military Mission in Sopron, Baron Villani, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 6. SOPRON, January 9, 1921. I learn from the French Captain Redon that the British Captain Gundry has twice been to Wiener-Neustadt ancTínquíred there about the strength and equipment of the army and police. Having obtained the information that three hundred men were available for the occupation of Western Hungary, he reported to the Commission of Allied Generals that the Great Powers should occupy the territory with their own troops, as he considered four thousand men necessary. To-day he left for Budapest, probably to urge personally that troops should be sent. The French captain considers an international occupation impossible. No. 27. 26.057/9. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Warsaw, Count Csekonics. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 7. BUDAPEST, January 10,1921. With reference to your code telegram No. 228, 2 you are requested to inform the Polish Railway Ministry that in case of war 1 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 26. 2 Not printed in Vol. I. The Polish Government asked for guarantees that sixty railway-engines to be repaired in Hungary would not be retained in any circumstances, even in the event of war.
