740.00119 Control (Hungary) /8–1645: Telegram
The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 17—12:51 p.m.]
428. In response to my query as to present status of suggestion made by us last June (my telegram 177, June 19) regarding Hungarian unofficial representation at Washington, Foreign Minister today told me Govt had not yet received reply from ACC (Allied Control Commission) to request for authorization to send representative to US. Gyöngyösi said that when he last discussed matter with Pushkin latter merely suggested that matter be deferred pending establishment of Hungarian representation at Moscow. Since Potsdam declaration and announced renewal diplomatic relations between USSR on one hand and Finland, Bulgaria and Rumania on the other,23 Gynögyösi said there was hope here that full relations might be established between Hungary and Allied Powers.
I intimated that our original suggestion regarding unofficial representation at Washington has been made without prejudice to far-reaching issues involved in establishment of full diplomatic relations and I had no reason to believe our Govt’s position in this respect had changed. Gyöngyösi thereupon alluded to possibility of early national election here preliminary to establishment of fully representative Govt, but I did not follow his lead in discussing this matter.
- The Soviet Union reestablished diplomatic relations with Finland and Rumania on August 6 and with Bulgaria on August 14.↩