860F.01/11–3045: Telegram
The Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 1—2:59 p.m.]
650. The entire 22 US Army Corps evacuated Zecho on November 29 with exception of 300 officers and men. On November 30 General Harmon and 290 officers and men departed, leaving only 5 officers and 5 men who are closing out certain details and will depart within a week.
The Soviet evacuation is progressing steadily. Red Army troops have disappeared entirely from many areas. Long convoys are to be seen on the roads heading east and south. I will report to Dept in about a week the extent to which Soviet evacuation is complete.1
Sent Dept as 650 repeated to USPolAd Frankfurt unnumbered.
- Telegram 696, December 6, from Prague, reported on a conversation between President Beneš and Ambassador Steinhardt in the course of which Beneš stated that reports received by him indicated that the Soviet Government had kept its agreement to evacuate Czechoslovakia by December 1, and since that date the only Soviet troops on Czechoslovak territory were a few hundred wounded and sick officers and men and a few hundred officers and men guarding captured German military equipment (860F.01/12–645).↩