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

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IOO 1921 Weygand promised that he would bring our plans to the attention of competent authorities. The general tenor of his reply was non-committal. Nevertheless, I should not be surprised if in the near future he sent a French General Staff officer to Budapest to ascertain the information on which the Hungarian General Staff bases its expectation of a bolshevik attack in the spring. I am reporting this urgently to avoid such a visit finding our General Staff unprepared. According to local information, the conference of the Allied Prime Ministers begins on January 24. Marshal Pilsudski and his staff are expected to come to Paris after the conclusion of this conference at the beginning of February.

1 No. 53. 330/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gratz, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 31. BUDAPEST, January 21, 1921. Answer to report No. 26/pol.

2 of January 11. As our refusal to enter into negotiations on the basis of Article 302 [of the Trianon Treaty] might be interpreted by the Yugoslavs as an unwillingness to fulfil our treaty obligations and this might be used as a pretext for delaying evacuation, you are requested to inform the Conference of Ambassadors that we are willing to enter into direct negotiations. I would ask you, however, to uphold the position set forth in my code telegram No. 20

3 and to point out that the arguments of the Yugoslavs do not hold water, on the one hand, from the point of view of communications because negotiations are going on between the MÁV (Hungarian State Railways) and the SHS railroads with the object of SHS trains being permitted to run into Szeged; and, on the other hand, because the connection between the two banks 1 Cf. supra, Docs. Nos. 29 and 47; and infra, Doc. No. 54. 2 Not printed. 3 Supra, Doc. No. 45.