864.00/9–2545: Telegram
The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State, at London
[Received September 26—2 p.m.]
641. Following is official English text of note dated Sept 25 handed me this afternoon by Hungarian Foreign Minister: [Page 877]
“I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I am authorized by the Provisional National Government of Hungary to communicate with Your Excellency in their name and on their behalf the following:
“The Provisional National Government of Hungary wants to express its thanks and wishes to state that it is grateful to learn from Your Excellency’s note dated Sept 22, 1945 that the Government of the United States is prepared to establish diplomatic relations with Hungary and to negotiate a treaty. The Provisional Hungarian Government considers this as the appreciation of its endeavors to restore and maintain public order, as well as to establish and strengthen democratic institutions in Hungary.
“The Provisional Hungarian Government on its part is also anxious to establish immediately diplomatic relations with the United States and to negotiate a treaty with the United States Government.
“Concerning the safeguards mentioned in Your Excellency’s note the Hungarian Government wishes to refer to the democratic electoral law passed recently by the Provisional National Assembly and to the composition of the Provisional National Government on a wide democratic basis which is reflected also in the country’s whole administration. All these circumstances assure, according to the view of the Provisional National Government, undisturbed elections and the Hungarian Government is consequently in a position to offer—in accordance with the demand expressed in Your Excellency’s note—full guarantee to the Government of the United States, that free and untrammeled elections will be held for the establishment of the representative government in Hungary and that in the meanwhile the Provisional National Government makes provision to the full measure of its responsibilities under the armistice regime for the freedom of political expression of the democratic parties in Hungary and for the right of assembly.”
Repeated to Department as number 641.