Office of the Historian

661.6431/10–1645: Telegram

The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Gallman) to the Secretary of State

London, October 16, 1945—5 p.m.
[Received 9:45 p.m.]

10821. Emb’s 10778, Oct. 15, 9 p, m.25 and Dept’s 9105, Oct 13, 2 p.m.26 Sargent27 states that instructions were sent this morning to British Embassy in Moscow fully to support our representations on Soviet-Hungarian economic agreement. He stated Foreign Office was in full accord with Dept’s position and that it placed most emphasis on impropriety of provisional govt making basic long-term economic commitments to other govts. He again expressed hope that we would support in Allied Control Commission British efforts to prevent Soviet pressure being brought on Hungarians particularly in name of Allied Control Commission.

Sent Dept as 10821, rptd to Moscow as 357 and Budapest as 12.

Gallman
  1. Not printed; it reported that the British Foreign Office had instructed the British Representative on the Allied Control Commission in Hungary to raise in the Commission the question of the Soviet-Hungarian economic collaboration agreement (661.6431/10–1545).↩
  2. Same as telegram 2159, October 13, 2 p.m. to Moscow, p. 888.↩
  3. Sir Orme Sargent, Deputy Under Secretary of State in the British Foreign Office.↩