Interest of the United States in the cession of Carpathian Ruthenia by Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union, and in other Czechoslovak frontier problems²

^2. As incorporated in the Czechoslovak Republic after World War I, this territory was called Sub-Carpathian Rus. As annexed by Hungary in 1939, it was called Ruthenia. After being ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945, it was called Transcarpathian Ukraine. It is also sometimes referred to as Carpatho-Ukraine.

[For statements of policy regarding Czechoslovakia’s frontier problems, see memorandum by the Division of Central European Affairs, January 11, 1945, entitled “Summary; Czechoslovakia”, and annexes, printed on page 420.]