Office of the Historian

860F.01/7–745: Telegram

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

Washington, July 24, 1945—8 p.m.

74. Zecho note June 30 received in despatch 36 July 3. Dept does not consider further action necessary beyond Klieforth’s note July 3 to Zecho FonOff. Zecho note and General Harmon’s letter to Klieforth despatch 44 July 756 have been sent to War Department.

For your information, Dept can only call attention of War Department to other matters in Zecho note July 3 as well as despatch 41 July 557 urtel 58 July 4 and note June 30 in despatch 36. These questions can not be settled without definite civil affairs agreement with US forces. In view of decision noted Dept 46 July 9 please ascertain in your discretion views of Zecho Govt on desirability of civil affairs agreement.

Grew
  1. See footnote 42, p. 470.↩
  2. Despatch 41 not printed; it transmitted to the Department the text of a note, dated July 3, from the Czechoslovak Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Chargé in Czechoslovakia. Text of the note had also been sent to the Department in telegram 58, July 4, p. 468.↩