Office of the Historian

711.64/10–1145: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld)

Washington, October 11, 1945—6 p.m.

526. Your 641 Sep 25 and 727 Oct 8.4 You may inform the FonMin that haying found satisfactory the assurances given by the Hungarian Govt in its communication of Sep 25 in reply to your note of Sep 22, this Govt is now prepared to resume formal diplomatic relations with Hungary. Dept is therefore prepared if requested by the Hungarian Govt to ask the President if the designation of Szegedy-Maszak as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Hungary is agreeable to him.5

Byrnes
  1. Telegram 727, October 8, 1945, from Budapest, not printed; it reported receipt of a Hungarian Foreign Office note verbale stating that the Hungarian Provisional Government intended to appoint Aladar Szegedy-Maszak as head of the Hungarian Mission to the United States (701.6411/10–845).↩
  2. Telegram 756, October 13, 11 a.m., from Budapest, reported that a note in the sense of the Department’s telegraphic instructions was delivered to the Hungarian Foreign Minister on October 12 and in reply the Foreign Minister had sent a note expressing gratification of the United States Government’s decision to resume formal diplomatic relations and asking whether the designation of Aladar de Szegedy-Maszak would be agreeable to the President (701.6411/-10–1345). It was announced on November 2 that the United States Government had informed the Hungarian Provisional Government that it was agreeable to the appointment of Szegedy-Maszak; Department of State Bulletin, November 4, 1945, p. 734.↩