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

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732 1921 warned him of the consequences which might ensue if we should not succeed in coming to an agreement, which, I told him, was of primary interest to Germany. I pointed out that the Conference of Ambassadors had proved to Hungary, by its dilatory tactics, that it desired a satisfactory agreement between Austria and Hungary.

1 If such an agreement were not reached, responsibility must rest entirely with the Pan-German party and the German Nationalist fraction of the Christian-Socialist party. The further consequence would be the bitter resentment of the Hungarian people against Germany and this would greatly assist the forces which are trying to manoeuvre Hungary into a combination with the Little Entente and Poland. It cannot be in the interest of Germany, I said, that the short-sightedness of the Austrian parties should bring about a final estrangement between the Hungarian and German peoples. Mr. Scharffenberg promised to wire the foregoing to Berlin and to ask for authorization to intervene with the Pan-German party in Austria and with the German Nationalists. He promised to inform me of the answer of his Government.

2 No. 719. 344/res. pol. The Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 322. VIENNA, August 16, 1921. In accordance with the instructions of Your Excellency in telegram No. 280,

3 I again had a long conversation with Chancellor Schober. I consider it my duty to warn you emphatically that we must not be hasty either in official declarations or in the Press. When the time finally comes to resort to reprisals, let us use them if there is no other alternative, but I do not think that the efficiency 1 Cf. infra, Docs. Nos. 622 and 630. 2 Cf. supra, Doc. No 749. 3 Supra, Doc. No. 712.