740.00119 EW/12–244: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 4—4:30 a.m.]
4618. ReDeptel 2764, December 1, 4 p.m. In connection with the desire of the Czechoslovakian Government to be consulted on the terms of surrender to be imposed on Hungary, the Department may be interested to recall that the Soviet Government undertook an obligation to Czechoslovakia in this respect under the treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and post-war cooperation which was signed in Moscow on December 12, 1943.81 Article II of this treaty provides that neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia will conclude any armistice or other treaty of peace with Germany or with any state associated with in [it] in acts of aggression without prior mutual agreement.
If any implementation of this provision took place in the cases of Rumania, Finland and Bulgaria, we were not informed of it; and I am not sure the Russians have had it in mind at all in recent months.
- British and Foreign State Papers, vol. cxlv, p. 238. In regard to the negotiation of this treaty, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iii, pp. 670–734, passim. ↩