860F.01/524: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé to the Czechoslovak Government in Exile (Schoenfeld), at London
3524. Refer your telegram no. 3 of March 17 and Department’s 2128 of March 21. Joint Chiefs of Staff concur in Department’s view that there is no present need for a United States-Czechoslovak agreement concerning civil affairs administration in Czechoslovakia. Accordingly, please advise the Czechoslovak Government that, after consideration of the draft and consultation with the appropriate U.S. officials, it is our opinion that, in the light of the practical considerations involved, including geographic factors, no such agreement need be negotiated at the present time between the Governments of the United States and Czechoslovakia.
With respect to the agreement made or to be made between the Soviet and Czechoslovak Governments (which we understand from the Russian Embassy is along the lines of the draft set forth in your no. 3 of March 17 except that wherever the word “Allied” appears in the draft, the word “Soviet” followed by the word “Allied” in parentheses is to be substituted), please advise the Czechoslovak Government that we have no criticism to offer concerning the agreement or its terms.
Please also express our sincere appreciation of its action in submitting the draft agreement for our comment.
We are advising the Czechoslovak Embassy in the above sense.
For your information, the British Embassy has advised the Department that British have informed the Czechoslovak Government along above lines in reply to a suggestion that an Anglo-Czechoslovak agreement be negotiated.
Repeated to Moscow.