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

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• 734 1921 gone on 1 eave. Any intervention on my part would for the present be hopeless, because I have learned in strict confidence that the Conference has entrusted its authority to a sub-committee, the so-called experts, who, if they reach a unanimous decision, are entitled to act in any question which would be in the competence of the Conference. Frontier-questions belong to the so-called Versailles Conference, that is, the military sub-committee of the Conference of Ambassadors, whom I have no means of approaching. No. 722. 399/M. K.res. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Belgrade, Mr. Kolossá. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 94. BUDAPEST, August 17, 1921. You will kindly convey to the Yugoslav Government the sympathy of the Royal Hungarian Government on the decease of King Peter.

1 No. 723. 4563/pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Government with to the Interallied Military Mission in Sopron, Baron Villani, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 77. SOPRON, August 17, 1921. To-day at 11 o'clock Count Sigray explained to General Ferrario the reasons which induced the Government to sejid two gendarmerie battalions and keep them there.

2 After the conversation, the General formally called upon Count Sigray to withdraw the two battalions in the course of the day. In reply, Count Sigray repeated the reasons and, emphasizing that the action was 1 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 750. 2 Cf. supra, Doc. No. 717.