The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
HUNGARY'SCA CABINET
FACES A REJECTION
Peace Conference Not Likely
to Approve Government Of
Archduke Joseph.
SOCIALISTS HOLD ALOoF
Rumania Warned That 1t VIII
Not Be Allowed to Strip
Magyar State.

PARIS, Aug let is unlikely thai
the new Hungarian Government ap
pointed by Archdulke Joseph as Prince
Regent, with Stephan Friedrich as Pre-.
mier, Martin Lovassy. who was Premier
OF the last Cabinet as Foreign Minis.
ter, and Baron Sigismund Perenyi al
Minister OF the Interior. will be accepted
by the Entente Allies.
The remainder OF the Cabinet, as an.
nounced to-day, follows:
Minister of Finance. DR.. Johann
Gruenn; War, Gen. Chnitzer;- Justice
Georges BaIoghy; Agriculture, Stefan
Szabo; Religion and Education, Karl
Huszar; Health, DR.. O. Sillery: Ma
tional Minorities. Prof. Bigger; Minis
tiers without portfolio, Stefan Halter.
Johann Mayer and Count Paul Potucli.
The Cabinet took oath to Archduke
Joseph on Friday. 80
Three places were left for the So
cialists, but Associated Press dispatches
from Budapest state that Paul Garami.
the Socialist leader, and other Socialists
announced to-day that ehey would re-
fuse TO enter the new Government un-
less Archduke Joseph gave up the re-
gency.]
Archduke Joseph. replying to the state
ment, is reported by the Temps to have
said that he would retire from political
life as soon as a Cabinet was definitely
constituted IL necessary, and that in
any case he would not exact for himself
rights which might give rise to the be-
lief that he wished to restore the mon
archy.
The Temps says that Martin Lovassy.
Foreign Minister in the new Cabinet, Is
known by his compatriots as "a friend Of
the Entente" The newspaper says he
n 1v-ar
French Intellectual culture.
Andrassy for Old Parliament.
The new Ministers expect to hold on
until Parliament Is elected, leaving the
Ministries of Commerce, Welfare and
Food open for the Socialists whenever
they are willing to come in, although
naming temporary occupants for these
posts
Count Julius Andrassy, Foreign
Minister in the recent Lovassy Cabinet,
has expressed himself in favor of re-
calling the old Parliament Immediately,
instead OF trying to hold elections.
The new Ministers. when they took
the oath, swore to serve so long as
there is no constitutional government
and also to recognize Archduke Joseph
as royal prince regent" until then.
formal denial that the Rumanian
Government favored the advent to power
In Hungary of Archduke Joseph was
issued by the Rumanian Press Bureau.
1t says in part:
1.-THE Archduke's violent hostility to-
ward the Rumanlans is very we'll known.
As commander of the Austro-H Hungarian
troops in Pennsylvania he permitted
the soldiers to commit atrocities on the
Rumanian population. When there was
talk of deposing King Ferdinand the
Archdul1e was the principal Austrian
candidate for the Rumanian throne"
Rumania will not be permitted to strip
Hungary, according to- the draft of the
Supreme Councils reply to the last note
from Bucharest, which was completed at
yesterdays meeting of the council. The
text of the reply follows:
The Peace Conference. without re-
vCrting to a certain rumber of points
which call for correction, notes with sat-
isfaction on its part the Rumanian dec
laraton that 1t intends TO work in agree
ment with the policy which the confer
ence adopts in Hungary. 1t interprets
this declaration as an indication that
Rumania, as State participating in
the Peace Conference, intends to con-
form to the decisions of the conference
communicated through the military mis-
sion delegated to Budapest by the Su-
preme Council.
Insists ON Non-Interference.
Directions sent three times by the
conference to the mission of allied Cen
erals and communicated to Bucharest
have defined explicitly and in detail the
present policies of the allied Powers to-
ward Hungary, the disarmament of Hun
garian troops. the maintenance of order
With the smallest possible number of
foreign troops, the revictualling of Hun
gary, and the abstention from all inter-
ference in the internal politics of Hun
gary, preserving for that country a free
expression OF the national will
The Supreme Coucil insists on the
fact that final recovery of war. railway
or agricultural material or of cattle, &C..
cannot occur at present. According to
the principles of the Peace Conference.
accepted by all the Allies and applied
In particular in the treaty of peace with
Germany 1t is the right OF the assembly
of the allied and associated Powers
aloae to fix tho reparation 10 be made
by Hungary and determine upon its
distribution among interested States
Neither the Rumanian army nor the Ru-
manian Government has the right itselt
TO fix Rumania's share, assets OF all
kinds belonging to Hungary being
pledge held by the allied Powers In
common"
Delivery OF the Rumanian note, in
which the Bucharest Government as
serted that the Rumanians in CON
fiscating property in Hungary were
merely getting back their own prop
erty," and insisted that the armistice
Of November. 1918, mo longer exists"
was delayed, according to a statement
made by the Rumanian delegation to-
day, because OF its great length and the