Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, General: Political and Economic Matters, Volume II

840.4016/12–545: Telegram

The American Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Budapest, December 5, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received December 6—1:08 p.m.]

1026. In accordance with urtel 754, November 30,⁸⁵ I have informed Hungarian Govt⁸⁶ substance of Dept’s 310 to Warsaw and expressed gratification of this Mission that Hungarians have already accepted Potsdam principles on population transfers in Foreign Office note November 5 transmitted with my despatch 546 November 14 and copied to Berlin. We added that it was, therefore, to be expected transfer of Germans from Hungary would proceed in orderly and humane manner.

General Key⁸⁷ has been asked to inform colleagues on ACC (Allied Control Commission) of substance your 310 to Warsaw and advised of our communication to Hungarian Govt.

Repeated to USPolAd Berlin as 21.

Schoenfeld

85. See footnote 81, p. 1318.
86. Note of December 4, 1945, from the United States Mission in Hungary to the Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs is quoted at length in Stephen Kertesz, “The Expulsion of the Germans from Hungary: A Study in Postwar Diplomacy”, The Review of Politics, vol. 15, 1953, p. 193.
87. Maj. Gen. William S. Key, Chief, United States Section, Allied Control Commission for Hungary.