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

Documents

1920 211 them to communicate with their relatives at least by open postcards. The matter was discussed with the directors of the Hungarian Red Cross who stated that they would be willing to forward such correspondence through representatives of the Red Cross in Vienna and in Bucharest. Our attention, however, was called to the fact that in view of the great intervals at which messengers of the Red Cross travel it will take a long time to forward such correspondence. It has been suggested that it would be preferable to have such correspondence transported from the Red Cross representative in Vienna to the Red Cross representative in Bucharest by the official Rumanian courier who, in all likelihood, plies this route more frequently. You are requested, therefore, to communicate with the Rumanian representative in Vienna

1 and obtain his consent to have such correspondence transported in the manner above suggested. If the Rumanian representative should be unwilling to have postcards written by hand forwarded in this way, you are authorized to propose that we print postcards such as were used during the war for the correspondence of prisoners of war with their families. You are requested to report the results of your intervention as soon as possible. No. 197. 1708/P0I. The Secretary General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kánya, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Rome, Count Nemes. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 14. BUDAPEST, March 23, 1920. You are requested to call Mr. Sforza's attention to the fact that the Rumanians have not yet sent a diplomatic mission to Budapest, although it would seem to be in the interest of both countries to reduce the tension at present characterizing their relations. This tension also has adverse effects from the economic point of view. 1 Isopescu-Grecul. 14*