862.00/2–2348
The Secretary of State to the Yugoslav Ambassador (Kosanović)1
Sir: With reference to your note of February 28, 1948,2 transmitting the text of the declaration concerning German problems drawn up by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia at their recent conference in Praha, I have the honor to inform you that this resolution contains so many statements which are not in accordance with the facts that a discussion of its contents would serve no useful purpose.
Accept [etc.]
Under Secretary
- Identical notes were also transmitted to the Polish and Czechoslovak Ambassadors, and a copy was communicated to the Soviet Ambassador in reply to his note of February 26, p. 343. In telegram 378, March 3, to Berlin, not printed, the Department transmitted the text of this note and instructed Ambassador Murphy that the United States Government was not prepared to consider in the Allied Control Council the Praha Declaration “which is based on misstatements and distortions of fact and is patently designed to serve propaganda ends”. (862.00/3–348)↩
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Not printed. It transmitted the original French text and an English translation of the Praha Declaration of the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia (see footnote 1 to telegram 158, February 18, from Praha, p. 339). The note expressed the hope that the United State Government would give the Declaration serious consideration. Parallel notes were also presented to the Secretary of State by the Polish Ambassador and the Czechoslovak Chargé on February 23.
Copies of the Praha Declaration were also transmitted to the Soviet, United Kingdom, French, Belgian, Netherlands, and Luxembourg Governments by the Polish, Czechoslovak, and Yugoslav diplomatic representatives, and the Declaration was submitted to the Allied Control Authority for Germany by the Polish and Czechoslovak Military Missions in Berlin.
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