740.00119 Control (Hungary)/8–3145: Telegram
The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 5—8:05 a.m.]
522. Mytel 428, August 16. Prime Minister asked me yesterday as to possibility of establishment of diplomatic relations between Hungary and United States prior to conclusion of peace treaty and he said he surmised from our attitude in Rumanian and Bulgarian election questions55 that our Government was not disposed to resume diplomatic relations prior to peace with ex-satellites including Hungary and he pointed out that U.S.S.R. expected to resume relations and to receive Hungarian diplomatic representative in Moscow in advance of conclusion of peace.56
I spoke to Prime Minister along the same lines as I had to Foreign Minister adding that this matter might perhaps be subject of discussion at forthcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers in London.57 I intimated that in view of position you had taken in Rumania and Bulgaria as to qualifications national govt must have before recognition by United States58 his surmise as to policy as regards Hungary seemed to me not unreasonable.
- See footnote 46, p. 858.↩
- Formal diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Hungary were reestablished on September 25, 1945. Georgi Maksimovich Pushkin was named Soviet Minister in Hungary on October 18. Gyula Szefku became the Hungarian Minister to the Soviet Union.↩
- The First Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers met in London, September 11–October 2, 1945. For documentation regarding the conference, see vol. ii, pp. 99 ff.↩
- See statement by the Secretary of State, August 22, regarding the situation in Rumania, Department of State Bulletin, August 26, 1945, p. 280; and his statement of August 25 regarding Bulgaria, ibid., p. 283.↩