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The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received October 8.]
Sir: Referring to my telegram no. 649 of today’s date,87 repeated to the Embassy at London for the Secretary of State as no. 30, I have the honor to enclose the English text of a note88 as received from Prime Minister Miklos of the Provisional National Government of Hungary, in which he expresses the earnest desire of the Provisional Government “to cooperate with the Governments of the United States, of the Soviet Union and of the British Empire on the basis of the Declaration of Yalta and the Agreement of San Francisco.”
[Page 878]As indicated in my telegram above mentioned the offer of cooperation with the Allied Governments on the basis of the Crimea Declaration is the formula which was under discussion following receipt by this Mission of the Department’s telegram no. 341 of August 23 in which the Department intimated its readiness to discuss with its Allies, if so requested by the Hungarian Government, the matter of a free election in Hungary with a view to the establishment of a representative government. I have reason to believe that the Prime Minister did not dare to make this suggestion prior to the recent offer by the United States as well as the Soviet Union to renew diplomatic relations with the Provisional Government in Hungary and that he has now taken the opportunity to intimate the desire of the Hungarian Government for “cooperation” with the Allied Governments in the hope that we would take advantage of this expression to act along the lines contemplated in the Department’s telegraphic instructions no. 341 to this Mission.
Respectfully yours,