501.BC/10–1149: Telegram
The Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Jacobs) to the Secretary of State
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1494. Following is translation (supplied by Foreign Office) note handed me this morning by Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Hajdu which is being referred to in separate message:
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of USA and has the honor to advise that Czechoslovakia, supported by the delegates of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelo-Russia and Poland, is a candidate for the seat on the Security Council vacated by the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine, as the sole candidate put forward by the Eastern European states for which this seat is reserved in accordance with the agreement, denied by no one, among the leading founder-members of the UN, just as the other non-permanent seats are reserved for other geographical groups of states. Czechoslovakia, like the other countries that support her candidature, has always faithfully observed this agreement and will do so also on this present occasion, leaving the choice of the actual candidate to the geographical group concerned.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is convinced that respect for this principle, particularly so in this case, will have a beneficial influence on cooperation within the UN in the interest of all the member states, as well as on the relations between Czechoslovakia and the member states concerned.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs avails itself, etc etc.”