360F.115 International Telephone and Telegraph Co./7–1945: Telegram
The Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 20—12:25 p.m.]
365. Replying on Sept 17 to this Embassy’s notes of August 23 and Sept 4 on subject of proposed removal machinery and equipment as war booty from Lorenz plant at Vrchlabi owned by International Telephone and Telegraph Company Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs which previously had advised plant removed from war booty list now states this was error and that USSR consents to taking only 75 per cent of equipment and machinery claiming seizure and removal in accordance with international law. Note emphasizes that Czechoslovak Govt absolutely needs plant for its industrial life but has little or no hope of changing Soviet decision.73
Sent Dept as 365 repeated Moscow as 32.
- Telegram 364, September 19, from Prague, reported the receipt of a similar note from the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry regarding the unsuccessful efforts of the Czechoslovak Government to persuade the Soviet Government to renounce its claims to the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation plant at Bruntal as war booty (360F.115 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp./9–1945).↩