Office of the Historian

860F.00/10–3145: Telegram

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

[Extract]68
Praha, October 31, 1945—midnight.
[Received November 3—1:15 p.m.]

509.

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6. As to the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans, Benes said he quite understood the desire of the Allies for delay where so substantial a movement is concerned but that as the political pressure for expulsion continues to increase he was experiencing great difficulty in restraining irregular expulsions which were bound to take place on an increasing scale.

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Steinhardt
  1. For the other portions of this telegram, see vol. iv, p. 503.↩