STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 61, Sig. 109-1/67

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1. 210 pr00ab01e6n6(6116 brod Be en Tokoper T O-VI G.-M. 190 reports: for me the following statements about the dotltitadoeru "The' director of the Hungarian bank in Budapest, who in Budapest has important acquaintances in economic and TerditcSodirIote political circles and who at the end of last week came directly from Bu- aislsi-Niniest to Prague, confidentially stated: enis mu doieThe Hungarian government has been negotiating the ceasefire for a long time with the d d d in Ankara. On 4 October, these 16 negotiations were interrupted in Ankara, as the conditions for surrender, which Hungary was supposed to fulfil before the ceasefire began, were too harsh and more visible. But before the break between Btanden had elapsed, ETY considered the Hungarian government and called on its commissioner in Ankara to continue immediately in the negotiations with the representatives of the enemy powers. In the Budapest government circles it is expected that the ceasefire of Hungary with the allies will be concluded in a few days. The Hungarian government will keep the strictest silence about the cease-fire conditions of the enemy powers. It is said that the conditions, and especially those dictated by the Bolsheviks, are even more difficult than the conditions dictated to Romania and Finnlend. But for this, as is claimed in the government circles in Budapest, the Hungarian negotiations allegedly reached the promise at the very beginning of England, the USA and the Bolsheviks that for the time being for the negotiations, the allied planes will not bomb the city of Budapest, but only military and communication objects besides the Budapest area, which the German soldiers use in Hungary. On the question put to him, K e l e m b e r y confirmed that, according to the information received by the Hungarian Consul General in Prague recently, this message basically corresponds to the truth.