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

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1921 693 tions, the territory should remain in our possession. Therefore it is desirable that the Conference of Ambassadors should not request the evacuation of this territory until the negotiations have been completed. You are requested to ask Mr. Peretti to use his influence in this matter with the Conference of Ambassadors. Please report the result of your intervention.

1 No. 594. 290/M.K. res. The Hungarian Charge d'affaires in Vienna

, Mr. Edl, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] No. 563/pol. VIENNA, July 17, 1921. I beg to enclose for Your Excellency a copy of to-day's issue of the Neues Wiener Journal, which reports on the first page the possible return of King Charles to Hungary

2 in the form of a telegram from Berlin. The insistence with which rumours of King Charles's return have been reported recently from the most various quarters gives me the impression that there is a regular campaign here from people who are personally opposed to the King, or who would gladly see the complications involved in his returning again used as an excuse for neighbouring countries to take steps against us. Such agitation, which is injurious both to the King and to the country, could in my opinion best be met perhaps if it could be arranged to get a statement from His Majesty to the effect that, as he did not desire to cause complications, he would only consider the question of his return at a time when circumstances permitted the country to recall its ruler. Monarchist circles here know nothing of His Majesty's intending to come to Hungary in the summer.

3 1 Cf, infra, Docs. Nos. 596, 601, 604 and 620. 2 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 532. 3 Cf. infra Doc. No. 634.