840.4016/12–1745: Telegram
The American Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 23—8:07 a.m.]
1120. Mytel 1104, Dec. 15. ForMin presented note today95 following my conversation with him regarding deportation Germans. He reiterated Hungarian Govt policy to transfer to Germany only [Page 1326] those who were members of Volksbund, SS or who had committed in course of war act of disloyalty against Hungary. Govt according to note had never planned transfer based on mere fact of German origin or language.
In connection with evident misunderstanding in foreign press regarding numbers to be repatriated note requests that US Govt clarify its position concerning matter. Note refers to details incorporated in previous note of Ministry sent Dept by despatch No. 645, Dec. 5.96
Sent to Dept, repeated to Moscow as 139, London as 73 and Berlin as 29.
- For text of Note Verbale No. 139/Res/Be/1945, dated December 15, 1945, from the Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the Representative in Hungary and transmitted to the Department as an enclosure to despatch 775, January 2, 1946 (not printed), see Kertesz, Diplomacy in a Whirlpool, Document No. 11.↩
- Not printed.↩