864.4016/6–1945
The American Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 28.]
I beg leave to add that at the time of my conversation with Dr. Gyöngyösi42 today, when he handed me the note above-mentioned,43 I took the opportunity to speak to him in the sense of the Department’s telegram Number 96 of June 14, 1945 regarding the proposed treatment of members of the German minority in Hungary.
The Minister stated that the Hungarian Government had no intention of dealing with this matter otherwise than by agreement with the Allies; there was no intention for the present of transferring to Germany any large group from the German minority here. The Hungarian Government recognized that this was a matter for consideration jointly by the Allies and Hungary. Such consideration would be facilitated, as the Minister hoped, by the early establishment of diplomatic representation on behalf of the Hungarian Government not only at the principal Allied capitals but also in states contiguous to Hungary. Having in mind the statement quoted in the Department’s telegram Number 96, I mentioned to the Minister that according to some reports 340,000 persons were involved in the alleged proposal to expel Germans from Hungary. The Minister said that this figure was greatly exaggerated and that probably no more than 200,000 Germans in this country were involved.
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Respectfully yours,
- Janos Gyöngyösi, Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩
- Note of June 19, 1945, from the Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the American Representative in Hungary; see telegram 143, June 12, from Budapest, and footnote 18, vol. iv, p. 931.↩