740.00119 Control Hungary/1–3045: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:58 p.m.]
280. British Chargé d’Affaires has sent me a copy of a letter dated January 21 in which he acknowledged receipt of a letter from Molotov dated January 20 enclosing the text of the statutes of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary. Balfour stated in this letter that he had been instructed to inform Molotov that the British Government accepted the statutes as a satisfactory definition of the status and functions of the British Military Mission in Hungary during the first period of the armistice, but reserved its position in regard to the second period, as stated in a previous letter sent to Molotov on January 20.
Sent to Department as 280, repeated to Caserta as 16.