740.00119 Control (Hungary)/11–2146: Telegram
The Minister in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State95
[Received November 21—11:35 a.m.]
2180. Following is translation supplied by General Weems of letter No. 2669, dated November 18, from General Sviridov to Weems:
“In reply to your letter of 26 October 1946,96 I have the honor of letting you know of my opinion concerning the receipt by Mr. Schoenfeld, USA Minister, of information on economic and financial questions from the Hungarian Govt.
We cannot dispute the right of Mr. Schoenfeld, the Minister, to apply directly on any question to the Hungarian Govt and not through the ACC. However, according to the Armistice Agreement (supplement to Article 16) the Hungarian Govt is obliged to give information and data on some important questions to the foreign missions through the chairman of the ACC only. And in the present actual case information on economic and financial questions may be obtained from the Hungarian Govt only through the chairman of ACC.
If the Hungarian Govt submits such information to Mr. Schoenfeld, the Minister, without the knowledge of ACC it will violate the rules of the Armistice Agreement; and the ACC cannot permit this”.
Repeated Moscow 299.
- In telegram 2181, November 21, from Budapest, attention was drawn to the fact that Sviridov’s letter could be construed to bar any and all direct communication between the American Legation and the Hungarian Government (740.00119 Control (Hungary)/11–2146).↩
- General Weems’ letter is not printed, but see footnote 86, p. 341.↩