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

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100 1921 own interest to agree with Hungary. Would it not be possible to answer to the Allies that we were keeping Western Hungary as a pledge until the liquidation of the common properties in Austria, to which we are entitled and for which we have no security whatsoever? Finally, I should like to report that Mr. Peretti was informed in my presence by telephone that Austria has insisted in three notes that the cession of Western Hungary should be settled and the step in question was only then taken; thus the statement of the Chancellor of Austria is not in accordance with the facts.

1 No. 15. 82/poL The Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 6. PARIS, January 6, 1921. Count Semsey reports the following, and asks that it should also be communicated to Count Emeric Csáky: Mr. Paléologue, who received me for an hour and a half to-day, was exceptionally courteous and assured me of the unchanged goodwill of the President of the Republic

2 and himself, and asked me to communicate the following to you without delay: The present Government will probably fall within two weeks, when big debates on foreign policy are also to be expected, and he even gave me to understand that Mr. Berthelot might also fall at the same time as a result of the influence of the President of the French Republic, who even to-day fully approves the eastern policy initiated by Mr. Paléologue.

3 The latter also informed me that in view of the fact for the last five days the Rumanians have been sending the most despairing reports of the eastern situation, in two weeks, on his return from Spain, he will 1 Cf. supra Doc. No. 1; and infra. Doc. No. 19. 2 Millerand. 3 Cf. Vol. I, Subject Index: FRANCE, Franco-Hungarian rapprochement.