The Archive · 1934

Bad Faith Alleged

Yevtiteh, the Yugoslavian Foreign Minister, declared that the Hungarian memorandum in reply to the charges brought by Yugoslavia, was purely a denial of the charges without the slightest bit of supporting proof of the Hungatian eomplaint that the charges constituted nothing more than a political manceuvre of the Little. Entente, 'AS an example of the bad faith of the Hungarfan Government, he declared; it was only after the Yank: putchta refugee camp had existed for two years that Hungary admitted knowing about it. And then, it took the Hungarian "Government seven months to liquidate the camp.

'Hungary, M, Yevtitch stated, had moved, in the case of only one terrorist notwithstanding complaints by the Yugoslavian Government during..a period of more than five years.' And even then, the Yugo-Slavian Foreign Minister concluded, that terrorist disappeared before he could be arrested.

Herr von Eckhardt, the Hungarian representative on the Minority Commission, stated that the refugee Question was steadily getting worse and that the promise by the Yugoslavian Government, that the expulsion of Hungarians would be stopped, had not been observed.

The League of Nations has again justified itself, declared the President of the League Council in summing the day's proceedings.

Fears were entertained that the Hungarian Government would oppose the question of responsibility of certain Hungarian officials contained the resolution, but much satis faction was expressed when it was announced that the Hungarian Government had accepted the draft

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