The Archive · 1940

Hungarian Envoys Greeted Wildly

Budapest Beflagged with

Axis Banners as Group Returns in Triumph Budapest, Aug. 31.

Cheering crowds and bands today greeted the. arrival of the Hun-

Feeling grew in Bucharest against the agreement and police were for ced to disperse groups of pro-Transylvanian demonstrators in the Rumanian capital, state diplomatic advices reaching here. The Rumania Army was ordered to stand watch it the ceded district to forestall anti-Hungarian action by the peasants there, it was said.

Diplomatic circles pointed out thi it was agreed in Vienna that German troops would have the right to er Hungary and Rumania to the Rumano-Russian frontier, but there was no indication that German troops hac Fetu documents giving] Hungary 44,000 square miles of Rumanian territory with a population of 2,000,000, "Hungary's loyalty hag been rewarded. We must now prove our worthiness. We must not gloat or demonstrate but we must fulfil our responsibilities seriously," Count Paul Teleki, Premier, told the cheering crowds.

Count Stephen Csaky, Foreign Minister, also made a speech, saying, "We should be grateful to the two great Powers which found time in the midst of a life and death struggle to settle a question in which they were not interested."

The Hungarian leaders referred to the pressure applied by Italy and Germany on Rumania to cede the larger part of Transylvania to Hungary.—United Press.

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