He appointed Dénes Berinkey to form the new government. Prime minister: Dénes Berinkey Minister of Foreign Affairs: (19 January 1919 to 24 January 1919); later Ferenc Harrer (24 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Defense: Vilmos Böhm (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of the Interior: Vince Nagy (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Finance: Pál Szende (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Food: Ernő Baloghy (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Religion: János Vass (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Education: Zsigmond Kunfi (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Justice: Dénes Berinkey (19 January 1919 to 24 January 1919) later Sándor Nagy Juhász (24 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Commerce: Ernő Garami (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Welfare and Labour: Gyula Peidl (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister for Rusyn minority: Oreszt Szabó (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister for German minority: János Junker (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Minister of Agrarian land reforms: István Szabó de Nagyatád (19 January 1919 to 21 march 1919) Foreign policy The Hungarian Royal Honvéd army still had more than 1,400,000 soldiers when Mihály Károlyi was designated as prime minister of Hungary. However, he took up the case of pacifism in accordance with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points by ordering the unilateral self-disarmament of the Hungarian army, leaving the country defenseless at a time of particular vulnerability. This happened on 2 November 1918, while Béla Linder served as minister of war Sharp A. The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking after the First World War, 1919–1923. Palgrave Macmillan 2008. p. 156. . which made the occupation of Hungary directly possible for the relatively small armies of Romania, the Franco-Serbian army and the armed forces of the newly established Czechoslovakia. Károlyi had appointed Oszkár Jászi as the new Minister for National Minorities of Hungary. During their brief periods in power, Oszkár Jászi, tried to create an "Eastern Switzerland" by persuading the non-Magyar peoples of Hungary to stay as part of the new Hungarian Republic. Jászi also immediately offered democratic referendums about the disputed borders to minorities, however, the political leaders of those minorities refused the very idea of democratic referendums at the Paris peace conference. Instead the Czech, Serbian, and Romanian political leaders chose