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

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1920 449 of Soviet created great consternation in Committee on Foreign Affairs of Chamber of Deputies, where the view gained foothold that an appeal must be made to the Czechs and Hungarians for assistance in the fight against bolshevism. Rumanian mobiliza­tion will be completed within the next days. Views here on situa­tion are generally pessimistic. No. 444. 4418/pol. The Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Dr. Gratz, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki. [TRANSLATION] No. 855/pol. VIENNA, July 12, 1920. Counsellor of Legation Mr. Masirevich asked me to submit the following report concerning the conversation he had yester­day with the French minister in Vienna, Mr. Lefèvre-Pontalis, about the socialist boycott against Hungary: „The French minister asked me to inform him about the status of the boycott in view of the conversation between Dr. Gratz and the representatives of the Amsterdam bureau of the International Confederation of Labour. The Minister was partic­ulary interested to know whether the representatives of the Principal Allied Powers in Budapest have taken any position with respect to the boycott. He said that he had received no instructions from Paris in this matter. Concerning this latter question, I replied that to my knowledge the representatives of France, 1 Great Britain 2 and Italy 3 in Budapest have not attempted to influence the Hungarian Government in any question relating to the boycott. At the same time, I expressed my astonishment that the Allied Powers seem to leave us alone in this struggle against the excesses of international socialist organizations although in my opinion it would be in the interest of orderly government everywhere that the boycott should not end with a victory of the socialists. Should that occur, it would in my opinion have unforeseeable consequences; it would mean in substance that over and above sovereign states there would be 1 Fouchet. 2 Athelstan-Johnson. 3 Cerruti. 29

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