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740.00119 Control (Germany)/10–345: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt)28

Washington, October 3, 1945—8 p.m.

282. Allied Control Council for Germany has requested Govts of Poland, Zecho and the Control Commission for Hungary to furnish certain information concerning Germans still to be expelled from those countries. It was agreed at ninth meeting of Coordinating Committee Sep 27 that this information should be transmitted by identical notes presented by the four powers through the usual diplomatic channels.

You are therefore requested to present to FonOff on behalf of Allied Control Council for Germany note as follows:

[Here follows text of note quoted in telegram 615, September 29, from the United States Political Adviser for Germany, printed on page 1280.]

Acheson
  1. Repeated as telegram 484, October 3, 7 p.m., to Budapest, and as telegram 168, October 3, 7 p.m., to Warsaw.↩