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

Documents

762 1921 that it would be necessary to have the consent of the Conference of Ambassadors to such modifications as the cession of Prekomurje.

1 The Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign

,Aff airs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Pursuant to Your Excellency's instruction No. 334/res. pol.,

2 which arrived last night, this morning I made an oral declaration to Chancellor Schober and promised to submit the contents of my statement in writing by this evening. The Chancellor promised, on the basis of the minutes of the last session of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, a favourable answer concerning the position of the Hungarian government officials who would not be removed. As to the territorial guarantee we demand, Dr. Schober promised that on the basis of my arguments he would try to influence favourably the next session of the Committee for Foreign Affairs in the short time he had at his disposal. The more time he had left to do this, the better, and with regard to the forty-eight hours extension in the transfer, he proposed to summon the Committee to meet on the 27th inst. The already-mentioned draft for the Austrian proposal has been submitted to the Chancellor by Dr. Bauer.

3 Dr. Schober said that its contents were naturally not acceptable to us, but they meant a step towards the possibility that the matter could now be discussed by Mgr. Seipel and Dr. Bauer, to which Dr. Schober is looking forward with great expectations. He will call Mgr. Seipel to Vienna by telegram. The Chancellor did not conceal from me that he saw great difficulties in the matter of the guarantee regarding Sopron, this demand of Hungary's being contrary to the last resolution of the 1 C/. infra, Doc. No. 756. 2 Supra, Doc. No. 730. 3 Cf. supra, Docs. Nos. 708 and 724. No. 748. 4837/pol. Code telegram No. 326. VIENNA, August 20, 1921.