740.00119 Control (Hungary)/7–1345: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld)
185. Dept is in general agreement with your view that three principal Allied Govts should concert their policies under Crimea Declaration to assure to Hungarian people exercise of their right to create democratic institutions of their own choice, and that joint action may be called for in connection with forthcoming elections in Hungary (urtels 165 June 16, 172 June 18, 211 June 2587). We would not however press for actual supervision of elections by Allied representatives unless it should become apparent that Hungarian authorities intend to conduct them in way which will not allow the people a free choice.
Application of Crimea Declaration in ex-satellite states is on US agenda for forthcoming meeting of heads of Govts,88 and it is planned that Soviet and Brit Govts will be apprised of our general views on Hungary at that time.
Before that meeting Dept does not believe it advisable to make specific proposal regarding Hungarian elections to Soviet and Brit Govts through regular diplomatic channels.
- Telegram 165, June 16, 7 p.m. from Budapest, is printed on p. 828. Telegram 172, June 18, 6 p.m., from Budapest is not printed, but for a summary and extract, see footnote 75, p. 829; telegram 211, June 25 from Budapest recommended that persistent efforts be made in Moscow to secure greater American participation in the Allied Control Commission; for text, see Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. i, p. 387.↩
- For the records of the discussions at the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, July 17–August 2, 1945, regarding the application of the Crimea (Yalta) Declaration on Liberated Europe, see ibid., vol. ii, p. 1643, entries in Index under “Yalta agreements and discussions: Declaration on Liberated Europe, implementation of”.↩