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

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13 il considers it out of the question that France would urge the cession. To-day he sent a memorandum to the Mission in Budapest about the question of Western Hungary, emphasizing that the transfer would impose the wretched fate of Austria upon a rich territory without helping Austria. He will also warn the Mission again that the annexation would mean a strengthening of Germany, since the majority of the population of Western Hungary, if it cannot be Hungarian, will not want to be Austrian, and will press for union with Germany with the greatest energy. Mr. Thurner's statement to this effect made a great impression on the Mission.

1 No. 7. 5,/pol. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Teleki, to the Representative of the Hungarian Government in Warsaw, Count Csekonics. [TRANSLATION] Code telegram No. 2. BUDAPEST, January 5,1921. Mr. Praznovszky reports that the Conference of Ambassadors, in a note addressed to him, invoked Article 115 of the Peace Treaty and protested against the furnishing of war materials to the Polish Government by the Manfred Weiss factory.

2 The text of this telegram has been communicated to Count Ssembek with the request that he should try to persuade Prince Sapieha to settle this matter with the Allies on the occasion of his next visit to Paris. You are requested also to mention the affair to Prince Sapieha and to call his attention to this latest short-sighted measure by the Allies. For your own information, I may add that I do not intend to reply to the Allied note for the time being.

3 1 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 8. 3 Cf. infra, Doc. No. 12. s Cf. Vol. I, Doc. No. 893.