The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-25
ALLIES GET NEWS
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH
HAS RESIGNED lob
Official Notice Shows Haps-
burg Leader Quit Hungarian
Rule Saturday Night and
New Cabinet Being Formed

PARIS, Aug. 25.-The resignation Of
Ihe hungarian government Of Arch
duke Joseph, previously reported In
pTess advices, vas announced In mes
sages received by the supreme council
Quay The messages indicated that the
resignation occurred at s O'Clock Sat-
prday night and that the formation Of
a new cabinet had begun.
ln the new cabinet. the dispatches
state, Paul Garami, minister Of justice
IN the Peidll cabinet, will be minister
OF commerce, while former Premier
Jules Peidll win be minister OF food.
karl Payer, minister or home affairs
in the Peidtl government, Is designated
as minister OF labor in the reconstructed
ministry, and Count Crany as minis
Ter OF foreign affairs. Tine other places
have not yet been filled.
The supreme council has decided to
request Rumania to keep an exac ac-
gary. Ihe value of these acquisitions
Is to be deducted from the amount
Hungary Is to surrender Rumania I'M
der the terms of the peace treaty.
The resignation or Archduke Joseph
Is thought due to the following note
dispatched to the Hungarian govern
ment by the supreme council sometime
ago:
The allied and associated powers
have been further considering informa-
ton derived from our reports and from
other sources, as to recent events In
Budapest. The conclusions are al fol-
lows:
They are most anxious to conclude
a durable peace with the Hungarian
people, but they feel that this can not
be done while the present Hungarian
government is In power. The govern
ment came into existence not by the
will OF the people, but by a coup d etat
carried out by a small body Of police
under the protection OF a. foreign army.
1T has at its head a member OF the
house of Hapsburg, whose policies and
actions were largely responsible for the
calamities under which the world Is
suffering, and will long suffer. A peace
negotiated by such II government is
not likely to be lasting; nor car the
allied and associated governments give
the economic support which Hungary
needs.
In its reply that Archduke Joseph
Is prepared, before approaching the al
lied and associated governments, TO
submit his claim to the test of popn-
lar elections, we must reply that this
procedure can not be satisfactory II
the election to be carried out under
the auspices of an administration which
the archduke himself controls.
THE difficulties In the way of OBJ
tanning by election OF a faithful reflec-
ton OF the popular will are, In the
present unhappy state Of Hungary, most
serious. They would be Overwhelming
II an election were carried out under
Hapsburg influences. Even II an as
sembly elected under such circum-
stances were really representative no
n would think so,
In the interest, therefore, Of Euro
pean peace the allied and associated
governments mean to insist that the
present claimant to the leadership OF
the Hungarian state should resign and
that a government, in which all parties
are represented. should appeal to the
Hungarian people.
THE allied and associated powers
would be prepared to negotiate with any
government which possessed the conf
dence of an assembly so electedN
The note was signed by Premier
Clemenceau.