740.00119 EW/6–446: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Hungary (Schoenfeld)
535. Urtel 976, May 24. Since FonMin claims to have been officially informed by Soviets in matter we think that for record you might at suitable opportunity tell FonMin that decision of CFM on Transylvania was taken upon Soviet initiative. From time negotiation armistice Soviets have insisted all Transylvania be returned Rumania. US Govt endeavored obtain arrangement permitting minor rectifications on ethnic grounds and subsequently favored adoption treaty language at least envisaging direct negotiations that connection between Hungary and Rumania. However, Soviet view that whole [Page 302] territory be returned Rumania without qualification and without reference subsequent direct negotiations finally prevailed.10
- Telegram 1079, June 7, 1946, from Budapest, stated that Minister Schoenfeld was informing Prime Minister Nagy by personal note in the sense of this telegram. Schoenfeld expressed doubt that the communication would be particularly useful because the Hungarian Government probably had been fully informed of the true course of events at Paris. Schoenfeld felt that what was really needed was an authorized statement from the Department to enlighten the Hungarian public which had been misled by Communist statements. (740.00119 EW/6–746)↩