840.4016/11–3045: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt)81

430. Please see Deptel 310 to Warsaw, repeated to you as 429. Dept suggests you inform Zecho Govt of substance of communication which is about to be presented to Polish Govt, at same time commenting, if you think it appropriate, that your Govt hopes that Zecho Govt will also wholeheartedly cooperate in carrying out Control Council’s program for orderly and humane transfers in spirit of Potsdam Agreement.

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  1. This telegram repeated, mutatis mutandis, as Nos. 754 to Budapest, 10416 to London, 2428 to Moscow, 5611 to Paris, 979 to the United States Political Adviser for Germany in Berlin, and 320 to the United States Political Adviser for Austrian Affairs in Vienna.