864.00/6–347: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Legation in Hungary
610. You are instructed make brief formal acknowledgment FonOff note June 1 (urtel 924 June 31) re reconstruction Hung Cabinet. Dept’s instruction this regard predicated on feeling that no useful purpose would be served by any alteration or interruption in US-Hung diplomatic relations.
However, in informal conversations which you may henceforth have with Hung Govt officials, you should make clear (1) that continuance regular relations between US and Hung is viewed by this Govt as matter entirely separate from problems created by recent Hung political developments, (2) that fact of continued relations in no sense implies approval of situation resulting from recent events in Hung or of methods used to bring present Govt to power, and (3) that present situation in Hung and US policy relating thereto are matters which Dept still has under active study.
[Page 315]For your info only, Dept is considering advisability issuance press statement along lines points 1 to 3 above at time Min Chapin’s departure in order publicly clarify US position these matters.
Sent Budapest, rptd London and Moscow.
- Not printed; it reported the receipt of a Hungarian Foreign Ministry note of June 1 formally advising of the appointment of Lajos Dinnyés as Prime Minister and Ernö Mihályfi as Acting Foreign Minister. The former was to retain his Cabinet post as Minister of Defense and the latter was to continue as Minister of Information. Other Cabinet posts were to remain as before. (864.00/6–347)↩