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

Documents

6o4 1921 No. 592. 342/M.K.res. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy, to the Hungarian Charge d'affaires in Vienna, Mr. Edl. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 249. BUDAPEST, July 17, 1921. Continuation of my code telegram No. 247.

1 Mr. Parcher replied on the 14th inst. as follows: [For text see supra, Doc. No. 585.] You are requested to inform Mr. Bourcart of the foregoing and to ask him in my name to consider my arguments and to use them in support of the request of the Hungarian Government to the Federal Council.

2 No. 593. 280/res. pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 231. BUDAPEST, July 17, 1921. With reference to my code telegram No. 225 of July 11,

3 I should like to inform you that the prospects for the settlement of the question of Western Hungary continue to improve. The official negotiations with Austria will begin only in the first days of August, after the necessary preliminary work has been completed. As you already know, Chancellor Schober declared that he cannot undertake any steps with the Allies in favour of delaying the surrender of the Burgenland territory, but he promised that he will not himself urge that the surrender should take place.

4 It is very important that until the conclusion of these brief negotia1 Supra, Doc. No. 591. 2 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 602. 3 Supra, Doc. No. 574. 4 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 548.