860F.51/9–2846
The Department of State to the Czechoslovak Embassy77
Memorandum
The Department of State refers to the negotiations initiated some time ago by the Czechoslovak Government looking toward a credit from the Export-Import Bank to Czechoslovakia of the sum of $50,000,000 and to pending applications for other credit.
It has come to the attention of the Department of State that the objectives and policies of the Government of the United States in granting such credits might be misunderstood in Czechoslovakia. Under the circumstances and since no agreement has as yet been reached between the United States Government and the Czechoslovak Government with respect to compensation to American nationals for their rights and properties in Czechoslovakia or with respect to certain commercial policy questions, the Department of State has, with regret, advised the Export-Import Bank to suspend negotiations for the $50,000,000 credit referred to above, and other credits for which applications are pending.
- Marginal handwritten notation on the source text indicates that this memorandum was handed to Chargé Hanč by Mr. Hickerson on the morning of September 28.↩