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

Documents

1921 597 No. 583. 28o/res.pol. The Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 279. VIENNA, July 14, 1921. Baron Villani will arrive in Budapest to-morrow and will report in detail about the conference we had last night with Dr. Schober and Mgr. Seipel.

1 For the time being I should like to report the following: The basis of the negotiations is the second proposal concerning territorial questions (that is, without the salient in the triangle Glashütten-Felsőőr-Pinkaóvár): south west of Féltorony, through the Lake Fertő, Medgyes, a half-circle around Sopron, then a line starting at the hill Kreutzerwald and running parallel at a distance of 5-6 km..westwards to the Trianon line and rejoining the latter at Pinkamindszent. As far as the salient of Felsőőr is concerned, I think we could come to an agreement in the course of the negotiations on an ethnographical basis in return for some compensation, for instance by narrowing down the 5-6 km. broad slice of territory or by abandoning the southern angle between the line Pinkaóvár-Pinkamindszent and the Trianon demarcation line right up to the point opposite to Pinkaóvár.

2 No. 584. 280/res.pol. The Minister of Hungary in Vienna. Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 280. VIENNA, July 14, 1921. Further to my code telegram No. 279.® The Chancellor and Dr. Seipel need about three weeks to prepare the ground and win over the leaders of the political par1 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 582. 3 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 583. 2 See map annexed to Doc. No. 596. Cf. infra, Doc. No. 584.