860F.01/11–945: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt)
378. Following is message which President Truman has just received from Stalin in reply to the President’s message of November 2, text of which was sent to you with Deptel 357, November 2:
“I have received your message concerning the withdrawal of the American and Soviet armies from Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately, it was delayed in reaching me in view of the irregularity of air mail from Moscow to Sochi in connection with the variable weather.
“Your proposal concerning the withdrawal of the armies during November can only be welcomed particularly since it fully accords with the Soviet plans for demobilization and withdrawal of armies. Consequently, it may be considered that the withdrawal of the Soviet and American armies from Czechoslovakia will be completed by the first of December.”
You may communicate substance of this message to President Beneš. Dept is releasing statement99 to press regarding US and Soviet plans for withdrawal of their troops from Czechoslovakia by December 1.
Repeated to USPolAd Berlin for Murphy as 842.
- Department of State Bulletin, November 11, 1945, p. 766.↩