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

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1 bishop Piffl of Vienna as apostolic administrator of Western Hungary. You are requested to intervene urgently and energetically with the Cardinal Secretary of State

1 not to appoint the apostolic administrator and to solve the question so, if necessary, that the Bishop of Győr

2 or Szombathely

3 should nominate a suitable member of the Sopron joint chapter, or of the Western Hungarian clergy, as assistant bishop of Western Hungary. You should point out that the nomination of an apostolic administrator, and especially of an Austrian bishop to this post, would create boundless indignation among the Hungarian public, which would not be able to understand why the Holy See hastened to reward this cruel injustice by a regulation entirely unjustifiable from the point of view of canon law, and which, moreover, might create a precedent in the case of other bishoprics in similar circumstances.

4 No. 734. 4576/pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Government with the Interallied Military Mission in Sopron, Baron Villani, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION I Code telegram No. 78. SOPRON, August 18, 1921. Count Sigray reports: Recent information confirms the report that Austrian workmen continue to arm on the frontier.

5 Banished Hungarian communists are already returning in secret, which is greatly disturbing the population. I have definite information that irresponsible Hungarian elements are also preparing independent armed resistance and making trouble® which I shall only be able to overcome if the largest possible number of troops are at my disposal. Therefore I would ask you to instruct the District Command of Szombathely through the Minister of Defence,

7 to recall immediately 1 Gasparri. - Fetser. 3 Count Mikes. 4 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 746. 5 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 732. 6 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 702. 7 Beütska.