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

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IOO 1921 tive tendency of the French Government is no longer as stable as it was and, feeling themselves alone in their fight against Bolshevism, they were cool and reserved in military questions. As to Hungarian relations, the Berthelot-Zamoyski trend was victorious. The Poles are possibly willing to follow a Hungarophile policy in Warsaw and Budapest, but not in Paris where we play the role of the poor relation whom one does not mention. They scrupulously avoid contact with us and indirectly refer to difficulties caused by the attitude of the French in this question.

1 No. 98. 634/pol. The Hungarian Chargé d'affaires in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gratz. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 37. VIENNA, February 6, 1921. Answer to your telegram No. 31-32.

2 I have just seen Chancellor Mayr, who informed me that the note concerning Western Hungary has arrived from Paris

3; he asked me, consequently, to inform Your Excellency officially of the Austrian Government's readiness to negotiate. Dr. Mayr is also in favour of expediting matters and accepts the modus procedendi proposed by Your Excellency. He expects me to transmit Your Excellency's intentions as to when and where the conference of ministers should meet.

4 No. 99. 634/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gratz, to the Hungarian Chargé d'affaires in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 34. BUDAPEST, February 7, 1921. You are requested to express the thanks of the Hungarian Government to Chancellor Mayr for his readiness, now officially declared, to negotiate.

5 1 Cf. infra, Docs. Nos. 100 and 216. 4 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 99. 2 Supra, Doc. No. 94. 5 Cf. supra, Doc. No 98. 3 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 63.