other volunteer units were fully dissolved. Also on that day, Peidl's government ordered the withdrawal of the printed currency of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the currency of the monarchy was reinstituted into legal circulation. Overthrow At the same time, the counterrevolutionary forces conspired to overthrow the government and put the Hungarian prince (and Austrian archduke) Joseph August in power. On the night of the 4 August 1919, the prince was brought from his castle to Budapest with the idea of seizing power the next day. Peidl received a communication from Vienna announcing that the Allies would support the government if it included bourgeois elements, which encouraged the counterrevolutionaries to accelerate their plans, backed by Traian Moșoiu, the Romanian military governor of Budapest, but rejected by the Allied representative. The Romanians seized the capital on the request of refugee counterrevolutionaries in Vienna, against Allied warnings. In the rest of the country, the collapse of the communist administration and the power vacuum left behind led to chaos. The situation was not much better in the occupied capital, where looting and retaliation took place. On 6 August 1919, the police and part of the army were already in the hands of the counterrevolutionary conspirators. That afternoon they arrested Károly Peyer, the Minister of the Interior, and learned that the government was meeting in the Sándor Palace. General Ferenc Schnetzer occupied, with Romanian support, the Ministry of Defense, without resistance. At the same time, a representative of the Allies appeared before the cabinet, backed by forty mounted policemen and some officers. He demanded, with threats of arrest, the resignation of the government. Peidl protested feebly and asked the assailants to withdraw. After receiving promises of personal security and the formation, in a few months, of a coalition government, the government decided to cede to the ultimatum. A Romanian contingent in the vicinity of the palace did not intervene. On 7 August 1919, the King of Romania, Ferdinand I, entered the capital. On the same day, Prince Joseph August became regent and István Friedrich, an industrialist, built a new government with career officials from the various ministries and part of the conspirators, generally bourgeois plebeians. The coup frustrated the possibilities of collaboration between socialists and liberals, and took away from the government some prominent political figures opposed to the seizure of power by force. After the government After the coup, Peidl became chair of