Paris Peace Conf. 184.01102/3
Professor A. C. Coolidge to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
[Received January 4.]
Sirs: I have the honor to report that yesterday I had another interview with Count Sigray. He was evidently worried by his latest news from Budapest and declared that the Bolshevist peril was increasing in Hungary as the government had no armed forces on which it could rely. He again declared that the best thing would be an American or even a British regiment at Budapest, and said that the French there only number some two hundred men so that no one takes them seriously, though their officers issue arrogant orders.
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