US Peace Treaty with Hungary
A TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HUNGARY, SIGNED
AUGUST 29, 1921, TO ESTABLISH SECURELY FRlENDLY RELATIONS
BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HUNGARY
Considering that the United States, acting in conjunction with
its co-belligerents, entered into an Armistice with Austria-Hungary on November 3, 19I8, in order that a Treaty of Peace might
Considering that the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
ceased to exist and was replaced in Hungary by a national Hungarian Government;
Considering that the Treaty of Trianon to which Hungary
is a party was signed on June 4, 1920, and came into force according to the terms of its Article 364, but has not been ratified by the
Considering that the Congress of the United States passed a
Joint Resolution, approved by the President July 2, 192l, which
reads in part as follows:
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, * * *
"That the state of war declared to exist between the Imperial
and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the United States
of America by the joint resolution of Congress approved December 7, 19l7, is hereby declared at an end.
"SEC. 4. That in making this declaration, and as a part of it,
there are expressiy reserved so the United States of America
and its nationals any and all rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations or advantages, together with the right to enforce the same,
to which it or they have become entitled under the terms of the
armistice signed November 3, 1918, or any extensions or modifications thereof; or which were acquired by or are in the possession of the United States of America by reason of its participation
in the war or to which its nationals have thereby become rightfully entitled- or which, under the Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye or the Treaty of Trianon, have been stipulated for its or
their benefit; or to which it is entitled as one of the principal
Allied and Associated powers; or to which it is entitled by virtue
of any Act or Acts or Congress; or otherwise.
"SEC. 5. All property of the Imperial German Government
or its successor or suecessors, and of all German nationals which
was, on April 6, 1917, in or has since that date come into the
possession or under control of, or has been the subject of a demand by the United States of America or any of its officers,
agents, or employees, from any source or by any agency whatsoever, and all property of the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, or its successor or successors, and of all
Austro-Hungarian nationals which was on December 7, 1917, in
or has since that date come into the possession or under control
of, or has been the subject of a demand by the United States of
America or any of its officers, agents, or employees, from any
source or by any agency whatsoever, shall be retained by the
United States of America and no disposition thereof made, except
as shall have been heretofore or specifically hereafter shall be
provided by law until such time as the Imperial German Government and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, or their successor or successors, shall have respectively
made suitable provision for the satisfaction of all claims against
said Governments respectively, of all persons, wheresoever domiciled, who owe permanent allegiance to the United States of
America and who have suffered, through the acts of the Imperial
German Government, or its agents, or the Imperial and Royal
Austro-Hungarian Government, or its agents, since July 31, 1914
loss, damage, or injury to their persons or property, directly or
indirectly, whether through the ownership of shares of stock in
German, Austro-Hungarian, American, or other corporations, or
in consequence of hostilities or of any operations of war, or otherwise, and also shall have granted to persons owing permanent
allegiance to the United States of America most-favored-nation
treatment, whether the same be national or otherwise, in all matters affecting residence, business, profession, trade, navigation
commerce and industrial property rights, and until the Imperial German Government and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government, or their successor or successors, shall have
respectively confirmed to the United States of America all fines
forreitures, penalties, and seizures imposed or made by the United
States of America during the war, whether in respect to the property of the Imperial German Government or German nationals
or the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government or
Austro-Hungarian nationals, and shall have waived any and all
pecuniary claims against the United States of America."
Being desirous of establishing securely friendly relations between the two nations;
Have for that purpose appointed their plenipotentiaries:
The President of the United States of America, U. GRANT-SMITH, Commissioner of the United States to Hungary; and
Hungary, COUNT NICHOLAS BANFFY, Royal Hungarian Minister
for Foreign Affairs;
Who, having communicated their full powers, found to be in
good and due form, have agreed as follows:
Hungary undertakes to accord to the United States, and the United States shall have and enjoy, all the rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations or advantages specified in the aforesaid Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States of July 2, 1921, including all the rights and advantages stipulated for the benefit of the United States in the Treaty of Trianon which the United States shall fully enjoy notwithstanding the fact that such Treaty has not been ratified by the United States. The United States, in availing itself of the rights and advantages stipulated in the provisions of that Treaty, will do so in a manner consistent with the rights accorded to Hungary under such provisions.
With a view to defining more particularly the obligations of
Hungary under the foregoing Article with respect to certain
provisions in the Treaty of Trianon, it is understood and agreed
between the High Contracting Parties:
(I) That the rights and advantages stipulated in that Treaty
for the benefit of the United States, which it is intended the
United States shall have and enjoy, are those defined in Parts
V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIV.
(2) That the United States shall not be bound by the provisions of Part I of that Treaty, nor by any provisions of that Treaty including those mentioned in paragraph
(l) of this Article, which relate to the Covenant of the League of Nations, nor shall the United States be bound by any action taken by the League of Nations, or by the Council or by the Assembly thereof, unless the United States shall expressly give its assent to such action.
(3) That the United States assumes no obligations under or with respect to the provisions of Part II, Part 111, Part IV and Part XIII of that Treaty.
(4) That, while the United States is privileged to participate in the Reparation Commission, according to the terms of Part VIII of that Treaty, and in any other commission established under the Treaty or under any agreement supplemental thereto, (5) That the periods of time to which reference is made in Article 364 of the Treaty of Trianon shall run, with respect to any act or election on the part of the United States, from the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty.
The present Treaty shall be ratified in accordance with the
constitutional forms of the High Contracting Parties and shall take effect immediately on the exchange of ratifications which shall take place as soon as possible at Budapest.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals.
Done in duplicate in Budapest, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1921.
[SEAL.] U. GRANT-SMITH,
Commissioner of the United States to Hungary.
[SEAL.] COUNT NICHOLAS BANFFY,
Royal Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs.