840.4016/10–2645: Telegram
The United States Political Adviser for Germany (Murphy) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 26—12:36 p.m.]
854. I refer to the desire of the Czechoslovakian Government to send to the Allied Control Commission in Berlin a special delegation [Page 1301] to discuss the transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia into Germany. The Department will recall that the question of population transfers has been referred to the Directorate of Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons. That Directorate has decided to receive the Czechoslovakian Delegation under certain circumstances, and, on behalf of the Allied Control Commission it requests me to send the following message to the Czechoslovakian Government through the normal diplomatic channels:
“The Allied Control Commission for Germany hereby notifies the Government of Czechoslovakia that it accepts the offer of that Government to send a delegation to Berlin to discuss the transfer of German populations with the Directorate of Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons. However, in view of the very great difficulties in obtaining food and accommodation in Berlin, the Allied Control Commission conditions this acceptance upon the inclusion of this delegation within the Military Mission of 10 members which the Czechoslovakian Government is now planning to send to Berlin.”
I therefore request the Department to transmit the above message to the appropriate Czechoslovakian authorities.63
- Acting tinder instructions from the Department, the Ambassador in Czechoslovakia transmitted the message quoted above in his note No. 325, November 5, 1945, to the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister.↩