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

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1921 Mr. Denis Pázmándy is already here. The arrival of Messrs. Friedrich and Urmánczy was announced to-day by their delegate, Mr. Tauber, in his irredentist speech at the Széchenyi monument ; he declared that they would prevent the annexation of Western Hungary by Austria in spite of the [Hungarian] Government. Local organization is going on under Captains Töpler and Hamersky. No. 746. 4593/pol. The Hungarian Chargé d'affaires at the Vatican, Mr. Kvassay, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 48. ROME, August 20, 1921. Answer to code telegram No. 32.

1 Two Under-Secretaries of State

2 have declared that they will submit an urgent request to the Holy Father

3 that he should refrain from nominating Cardinal Piffl as ecclesiastical administrator of Western Hungary. They promised that the Holy Father would take into consideration the point of view of the Hungarian Government — all the more so as he wanted to grant a special favour to Hungary by nominating a Cardinal as administrator of the detached territory.

4 No. 747. 4602/pol. The Representative of the Hungarian Government in Belgrade

, Mr. Kolossá, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Cede telegram No. 86. BELGRADE, August 20, 1921. Mr. Pasic, to whom I to-day made a statement, as instructed, on questions relating to the frontier, answered me that at the most we could talk about rectifications of minor importance and 1 Supra, Doc. No. 733. 3 Benedict XV. 2 Borgongini and Cerretti.