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

Documents

578 1921 lies in the question of the transfer of Western Hungary.

1 In a discussion with the Christian-Socialist and Pan-German party leaders, which was inevitable in such an important matter, they were unanimously of the opinion that the Government could not possibly take such a step, as in the present circumstances this would immediately lead again to a government crisis. All he was able to do at present was to refrain from pressing for transfer. For the moment, he had to endeavour to strengthen his position, and when he had obtained some influence over the parties, he would try to initiate a rapprochement between Austria and Hungary. Chancellor Schober added that in his conversations he had represented the proposal in question not as a request of the Hungarians, but as his own idea. After the above information, I passed on to the question of retaining the Hungarian civil servants and of not having the Austrian Volkswehr march in. The Chancellor promised to answer to-morrow; he informed me, however, confidentially that the day before yesterday Mr. Davy proposed at the Cabinet Council to use the Volkswehr for the occupation, but his proposition was rejected.

2 No. 549. ooo/pol. The Minister of Hungary in Christiania, Baron Bornemisza, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. Code telegram No. 21. CHRISTIANIA, le 2 juillet 1921. Remis lettre de créances au roi de Norvège.

3 No. 550. 3985/pol. The President of the Conference of Ambassadors, Mr. Cambon, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Paris, Mr. Praznovszky. PARIS, le 2 juillet 1921. Le Traité de Trianon devant entrer prochainement en vigueur, la Conférence des Ambassadeurs a dû se préoccuper de fixer 1 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 5

31. 3 Yugoslav official telegraphic agency

. 2 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 564. 4 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 307.