740.00119 Control (Hungary)/12–1344: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 15—12:10 a.m.]
4807. With respect to the Department’s several messages setting forth the views of our Government with respect to the armistice agreement to be concluded with Hungary, I wish to invite the Department’s attention to the extent of which the situation envisaged in those messages has been and is being changed by the actual conquest of the major part Hungarian territory by Russian forces and by the continued absence of a responsible Hungarian Government willing to enter into armistice negotiations with the Soviet Command. If there is any change in the views of our Government toward the armistice arrangements in the light of these developments I would appreciate being informed.