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

Documents

IOO 1921 in Paris

1 the Conference of Ambassadors in principle will maintain, in spite of all intervention, their decision concerning the suspension of work at the Manfred Weiss factory.

2 This was immediately communicated to the highest military authorities. Count Dzieduszyczki expressed the hope that the Minister of War

3 would now perhaps succeed in Paris in having this resolution withdrawn. No. 91. 59/res.pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gratz. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 50. PARIS, February 4, 1921. General Tánczos reports:

4 The opinion of the Polish Minister of National Defence,

5 with whom I had a long conversation, is as follows : x. The creation of a political basis is essential for the success of our plan. According to him, my statement that we were ready to postpone, for the duration of the anti-Bolshevist bloc, our claim for reparation of the grave injuries done to us would greatly facilitate the creation of this political basis. 2. If the first point is cleared up, the military questions are of a purely technical character and easily solved. The Polish Minister of Defence insists that Hungarian troops should fight in the first line of defence, i. e., on the eastern frontier of Poland. He appreciated my objections — reorganization and lack of equipment — but he thought that these could and should be put in order before the beginning of operations. 3. He thought my argument that it was not opportune for our purpose nor in Hungary's interests to use Hungarian troops far beyond the frontiers in view of the present internal situation of Hungary and especially that of Czecho-Slovakia, more acceptable. But he insisted that at least a small force of Hungarian 1 Count Zamoyski. 4 Cf. supra, Docs. Nos. 77 and 81. 2 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 49. 6 Sosnkowski. 3 Sosnkovski.