740.00119 Control (Hungary)/7–1345: Telegram
The Representative in Hungary (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 14—6:18 a.m.]
286. Following is a translation of note No. 428 dated July 11 from Marshal Voroshilov to General Key:
“The Soviet Government, due to the changes brought about by the cessation of hostilities with Germany, finds it necessary to establish the following order of procedure for the Allied Control Commission for Hungary:
[Page 835]1. During the period prior to the conclusion of peace with Hungary, the chairman (or acting chairman) of the Allied Control Commission will call regular meetings of the American and British representatives, for the discussion of the most important questions relating to the work of the Allied Control Commission.
These meetings are to be called once every 10 days, or more often if occasion requires.
The directives of Allied Control Commission pertaining to the principal questions discussed will be given to the Hungarian authorities by the Chairman of Allied Control Commission, after an agreement on these directives has been reached with the American and British representatives on the Allied Control Commission.
2. The British and Americans on the Allied Control Commission will participate in the conferences of the heads of departments, or their delegates called together by the chairman of ACC, which meetings will be held regularly: And they will also participate, personally or through their representatives, on proper occasions, in the mixed commissions established by the chairman of ACC oil questions relating to the fulfillment of the functions of the ACC.
3. The British and American representatives are allowed free movement through the country, but they should, however, inform the ACC in advance about the time and route of the contemplated trip.
4. All questions pertaining to clearances of incoming and outgoing collaborators of the British and American Missions in Hungary will be passed upon by the chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Budapest, on the spot, for a period not exceeding one week.
5. Clearances for British and American incoming and outgoing planes, mail, cargoes and couriers of the diplomatic mission shall be carried out in accordance with the terms of the ACC and in special cases by preliminary consultation with the chairman of the Allied Control Commission.
In addition to the above, I beg to advise that all of the other paragraphs of the existing statues for the Allied Control Commission for Hungary approved January 20, 1945 will remain in force in the future”.89
Sent to Department, repeated to Moscow 24 and London 5.
- Telegram 34, July 16, to Babelsberg (location of the American delegation to the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, July 17–August 2) stated that Marshal Voroshilov’s note met the main points of the Department’s proposals and offered a real basis for agreement for a reorganized Allied Control Commission; for text of telegram, see Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. ii, p. 687. Telegram 197, July 17, to Budapest, ibid., p. 692, reiterated that the Department regarded the Soviet proposals as a good basis for tripartite discussion. Telegram Victory 324, July 25, from the Secretary of State at Babelsberg to Budapest, ibid., p. 716, stated that the question of revision of the Control Commission procedures in Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary was under discussion at the Tripartite Berlin Conference. For the record of the discussions of the Tripartite Conference of Berlin regarding the revision of the procedures of the Allied Control Commission for Hungary, see ibid., pp. 150–155, 228–230, 241, 245, 260, 324, 394, 418, 524–525, 537, 540, 554–556, 564, 566, 575, 582, 593, 604–605.↩