661.6431/12–2145: Telegram
The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 25—8 a.m.]
1135. Foreign Minister today handed me note verbale7 dated yesterday stating National High Council at yesterday’s session ratified economic cooperating agreement between Hungary and the USSR signed August 27 last. Note says ratification will be exchanged in near future in Budapest.
Note adds that in deciding on ratification National High Council took into consideration resolution of Political Committee of National Assembly as follows:
“Political Committee of National Assembly presents for ratification Hungarian Soviet agreement of economic cooperation to the National High Council and takes cognizance of government’s declaration that this agreement by no means impedes Hungarian State to conclude economic or commercial agreements of any kind with other states”.
Foreign Office note ends by adding that agreement of economic cooperation concluded with Soviet Union does not affect validity of [Page 927] most favored nation clause in US Hungarian treaty signed Washington June 24, 1925.
Sent Dept, repeated to London as No. 78 and to Moscow as No. 145.
- For text, see Kertesz, Diplomacy in a Whirlpool, p. 261.↩