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

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78 1921 should ask his Government to send its delegates to Geneva on September 5. The Commission which will be appointed by the Assembly to investigate and report on the cause of the States asking for admission will certainly wish, as it did last year, to hear the delegates of the States to be admitted.

1 No. 772. 5052/pol. The Minister of Hungary in Vienna, Mr. Masirevich, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Bánffy. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 336. VIENNA, August 26, 1921. I communicated to-day to the Chancellor the contents of your code telegram No. 292,

2 in the form of a note.

3 The Chancellor declared that it was erroneous to suppose that the discussions of the Committee for Foreign Affairs would take several days. He took it as almost certain that the Committee session would be ended on Saturday

4 afternoon towards 4 o'clock, and promised to inform me immediately of the results. If these are not satisfactory, I shall insist on an answer — which I shall report without delay — on the question of State and common properties on the same day. Mgr. Seipel has returned and already resumed his duties. Tomorrow there will be a meeting of Christian Socialists and Socialists with Dr. Schober in the chair, in order to prepare for the Saturday meeting. In the hope of your subsequent approval, I submitted to Chancellor Schober the facts contained in the instructions No. 4542/pol.

5 as being not definitive, only approximate, in order to avoid prejudicing the issue. Concerning the common properties in Western Hungary I pointed out that we demanded their just division. I did not announce our claim to participate in these properties on a pro rata basis, because the following has to be considered: in the course of negotiations concerning the division of common properties, the Austrian Government always took the po1 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 805. 2 Supra, Doc. No. 757. 3 Not printed. 4 August 27. 5 Supra, Doc. No. 731.