611.60F31/8–1345: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Czechoslovakia ( Steinhardt )
172. 1. Hajný, Czech Commercial Counselor, indicated recently he has received no reply from his Government re draft proposal for a general most-favored-nation arrangement, copy of which was sent you with instruction no. 5 of June 21.97 He does not understand delay. Reurtel 202, August 13, 1945,98 last paragraph, you should, unless you perceive objection, emphasize to Czech authorities that proposed exchange of notes constitutes first step in reestablishing formal basis for trade relations between US and Czech and is considered by us as temporary measure pending conclusion of a new trade agreement or general treaty of Friendship and Commerce.
2. For your confidential information Committee on Trade Agreements has approved the reconstitution of a country committee on Czech to prepare recommendations re possiblity of undertaking negotiation of new trade agreement.
- Instruction not printed; for draft proposal, see supra. ↩
- Not printed; in it the Ambassador in Czechoslovakia reported that Hubert Ripka, Czechoslovak Minister of Trade, in a speech delivered August 9, had expressed the hope that negotiations with the United States would soon be undertaken (611.60F31/8–1345).↩