TREATY OF PEACE WITH HUNGARY.1 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, ITALY and JAPAN, These Powers being described in the present Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, BELGIUM, CHINA, CUBA, GREECE, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROUMANIA, THE SERBCROÁT-SLOVENE STATE, SIAM, and CZECHO-SLOVAKIA,2 These Powers constituting with the Principal Powers mentioned above the Allied and Associated Powers, And HUNGARY, of the one part; of the other part; Whereas on the request of the former Imperial and Royal AustroHungarian Government an Armistice was granted to Austria-Hungary on November 3, 1918, by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, and completed as regards Hungary by the Military Convention of November 13, 1918, in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded, and Whereas the Allied and Associated Powers are equally desirous that the war in which certain among them were successively involved, directly or indirectly, against Austria-Hungary, and which originated in the declaration of war by the former Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government on July 28, 1914, against Serbia, and in the hostilities conducted by Germany in alliance with Austria-Hungary, should be replaced by a firm, just, and durable Peace, and Whereas the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy has now ceased to exist, and has been replaced in Hungary by a national Hungarian Government: For this purpose the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Mr. Hugh Campbell WALLACE, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at Paris; 1 Articles of the Hungarian treaty which correspond with those of the Austrian treaty are in general not reprinted, but reference to the page of the Austrian treaty is given. Twenty-seven States took part in drawing up the treaty of peace with Germany and the seventeen here mentioned in drawing up the treaty of peace with Austria. 187 HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, EMPEROR OF INDIA: The Right Honourable Edward George VILLIERS, Earl of DERBY, K. G., P. C., K. C. V. O., C. B., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty at Paris; And for the DOMINION of CANADA: The Honourable Sir George Halsey PERLEY, K. C. M. G., High for the COMMONWEALTH of AUSTRALIA: The Right Honourable Andrew FISHER, High Commissioner for Australia in the United Kingdom; for the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND: The Honourable Sir Thomas MACKENZIE, K. C. M. G., High for the UNION of SOUTH AFRICA: Mr. Reginald Andrew BLANKENBERG, O. B. E., Acting High for INDIA: The Right Honourable Edward George VILLIERS, Earl of THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC: Mr. Alexandre MILLERAND, President of the Council, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Frederic FRANCOIS-MARSAL, Minister of France; Mr. Auguste Paul-Louis ISAAC, Minister of Commerce and Mr. Jules CAMBON, Ambassador of France; Mr. Georges Maurice PALÉOLOGUE, Ambassador of France, HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ITALY: Count Lelio BONIN LONGARE, Senator of the Kingdom, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H. M. the King of Italy at Paris; Rear-Admiral Mario GRASSI; HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN: Mr. K. MATSUI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H.M. the Emperor of Japan at Paris; HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS: Mr. Jules VAN DEN HEUVEL, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Minister of State; Mr. Rolin JACQUEMYNS, Member of the Institute of Private THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC: THE PRESIDENT OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC: Dr. Rafael Martinez ORTIZ, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Cuban Republic at Paris; HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE HELLENES: Mr. Athos ROMANOS, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of H. M. the King of the Hellenes at Paris; THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA: Mr. Carlos A. VILLANUEVA, Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Nicaragua at Paris; THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA: THE PRESIDENT OF THE POLISH REPUBLIC: Prince Eustache SAPIEHA, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC: Mr. João CHAGAS, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ROUMANIA: Dr. Jon CANTACUZINO, Minister of State; Mr. Nicolae TITULESCU, formerly Minister Secretary of State; HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE SERBS, THE CROATS, AND THE SLOVENES: Mr. Nicolas P. PACHITCH, formerly President of the Council of Ministers; Mr. Ante TRUMBIC, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Ivan ZOLGER, Doctor of Law; HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SIAM: His Highness Prince CHAROON, Envoy Extraordinary and THE PRESIDENT OF THE CZECHO-SLOVAK REPUBLIC: Mr. Stephen OSUSKY, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister HUNGARY: Mr. Gaston de BÉNARD, Minister of Labour and Public Welfare; Mr. Alfred DRASCHE-LAZAR de Thorda, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary; WHO, having communicated their full powers found in good and due form, HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: From the coming into force of the present Treaty the state of war will terminate. From that moment and subject to the provisions of the present Treaty official relations will exist between the Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary. PART I. THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS." PART II. FRONTIERS OF HUNGARY. ARTICLE 27. The frontiers of Hungary shall be fixed as follows (see annexed Map):* 1. With Austria: From the point common to the three frontiers of Austria, Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia, this point to be selected on the ground about 1 kilometre west of Antonienhof (east of Kittsee), southwards to point 115 situated about 8 kilometres south-west of St. Johann, a line to be fixed on the ground, leaving entirely in Hungarian territory the Karlburg-Csorna railway and passing west of Kr. Jahrndorf and Wüst-Sommerein, and east of Kittsee, D. Jahrndorf, Nickelsdorf and Andau; thence westwards to a point to be selected on the southern shore of Neusiedler See between Holling and Hidegseg, a line to be fixed on the ground passing south of Pamhagen, leaving in Hungarian territory the entire Einser canal as well as the branch railway running north-westwards from the station of Mexiko, and then crossing Neusiedler See keeping to the south of the island containing point 117; thence southwards to point 265 (Kamenje) about 2 kilometres south-east of Nikitsch, a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Zinkendorf and Nikitsch and west of Nemet Pereszteg and Kövesd; Part I is the same as Part I of the Austrian treaty. See ante, pp. 23-32. 'Map not printed. thence south-westwards to point 883 (Trott Kö) about 9 kilometres south-west of Köszeg, a line to be fixed on the ground passing south-east of Locsmand, Olmod and Liebing, and north-west of Köszeg and the road from Köszeg to Salamonfa; thence southwards to point 234 about 7 kilometres north-north-east of Pinkamindszent, a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Rohoncz and Nagynarda and west of Butsching and Dozmat, then through points 273, 260 and 241; thence in a general south-westerly direction to point 353 about 6 kilometres north-north-east of Szt Gotthard, a line to be fixed on the ground passing between Nagysaroslak and Pinkamindszent, then south of Karacsfa, Nemetbükkös and Zsamand and through point 323 (Hochkogel); thence south-westwards to a point to be selected on the watershed between the basins of the Raba (Raab) and the Mur about 2 kilometres east of Toka, this point being the point common to the three frontiers of Austria, Hungary and the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Rabakeresztur, Nemetlak and Nagyfalva, west of the Radkersburg-Szt Gotthard road and through point 353 (Janke B.). 2. With the Serb-Croat-Slovene State: From the point defined above in an easterly direction to point 313 about 10 kilometres south of Szt Gotthard, a line to be fixed on the ground following generally the watershed between the basins of the Raba on the north and of the Mur on the south; thence in a southerly direction to point 295 about 16 kilometres north-east of Muraszombat, a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Nagydolany, Orihodos with its railway station, Kapornak, Domonkosfa and Kisszerdahely, and west of Kotormany and Szomorocz, and through points 319 and 291; thence in a south-easterly direction to point 209 about 3 kilometres west of Nemesnep, a line to be fixed on the ground following generally the watershed between the Nemesnepi on the north and the Kebele on the south; thence in a south-south-easterly direction to a point to be chosen on the Lendva south of point 265, a line to be fixed on the ground passing to the east of Kebeleszentmarton, Zsitköcz, Gönterhaza, Hidveg, Csente, Pincze and to the west of Lendva-jakabfa, Bödehaza, Gaborjanhaza, Dedes, LendvaUjfalu; thence in a south-easterly direction, the course of the Lendva downstream; then the course of the Mur downstream; then to its junction with the old boundary between Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia, about 1 kilometres above the Gyekenyes-Koproncza railway bridge, the course of the Drau (Drave) downstream; thence south-eastwards to a point to be chosen about 9 kilometres east of Miholjacdolnji, |