Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)

Documents

164 1920 of bolshevik danger a secret agreement was lately concluded between the Polish and Rumanian Governments. It is not impossible that this agreement also contains a provision for the case of a Hungarian attack on Rumania. No. 142. 269/res. pol. Count Teleki, Member of the Hungarian Peace Delegation, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Somssich. [TRANSLATION] NEUILLY, February 23, 1920. Count Apponyi and I had the opportunity to read the minutes of a meeting of the Supreme Council, held in the first week of June [1919] at which the allocation of Western Hungary to Austria was discussed. The discussion was based on a report of Professor Coolidge which proposed that the whole of Western Hungary should be alloted to Austria for the following reasons: (1) According to him the German population of Western Hungary desires to join Austria. (2) The food supply of Vienna can be assured only through the incorporation of this territory into Austria. It is further stated that this territory belonged, until the XVI century, to Austria (?), that it came into Hungary's possession only in the XVII century (?) and that the whole traffic and economic activity of the region is directed toward Vienna. (3) Vienna would need this territory also from a military point of view. The reasoning supporting these three points is identical, word for word, with Chancellor Renner's reasoning in support of his claim for Western Hungary. The British members, Nicolson and Leeper, accepted this proposal, provided that Japan and France also accept. But the Italian Delegate, Vannutelli, took a firm stand against such a solution. In his opinion the economic problem could be solved just as well through an agreement with Hungary; in fact, this would insure much more effectively the food supply of Vienna. Austria's strategic interests could be satisfied by a neutralized