The Fate of Western Hungary 1918-1921 - Corvinus Library ...

the Hungarian and Swiss models. The entire text was not published at the time,
and was in manuscript form into the 1930s. 422
On the day after the proclamation of Lajta-Banate, October 5, the
Constitutional Council issued a directive:
To all state and local council offices
At their offices
On the authority of the Constitutional Assembly, I have assumed the office of
head of state until such time as a Viceroy is elected.
My goal is the protection of the independence, sovereignty and neutrality of the
people in the territory of the state the rebels’ arms have won and protect.
Equal and equivalent responsibilities and rights accrue to every citizen of the
state without ethnic or religious discrimination.
My greetings all of the country’s civil servants and local council officials, and
ask them to stay at their posts and be kind enough to support us in the work of
these present hard times.
May God’s blessing follow the independence of Lajta-Banate and its people!
Felsőőr, 1921, October 5
Pál Prónay, Commander in Chief 423
Also on the same day, the following announcement was released by Viceroy
Prónay, exercising his executive power:
Notice!
The people of Western Hungary have unanimously announced, amidst the
greatest enthusiasm, their independence, sovereignty and neutrality.
The formative work has quietly begun and now everyone is working in accord,
shoulder to shoulder.
There is no place among us for opposing agitation, destructive propaganda and
stirring of regressive politics against stated goals.
Hence, I direct every person in the territory of Lajta-Banate, who voices tenets
against state or class in the interest of agitating against the existing order and
422 Ádám T., 1935, op. cit., p. 131.
423 Lajtabánság, Felsőőr, year I, issue 1, 1921, November 3, p. 4.
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