At the same time I wish to state that as was previously agreed upon by us
the attached Statutes of the Allied Control Commission for Hungary will
be regarded as approved by the Governments of the Soviet Union, Great
Britain and the United States and will enter into force immediately
after the signing of the Hungarian Armistice Agreement.
I am sending a letter of similar contents to the Chargé d’Affaires ad
interim of Great Britain, Mr. Balfour.
[Enclosure]
Statutes of the Allied Control Commission in
Hungary
1. The functions of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary shall
consist of the regulation and control, for the period up to the
conclusion of peace, over the exact fulfillment of the armistice
terms set forth in the agreement concluded on January, 1945,13 between the governments of the Soviet
Union, United Kingdom and the United States of America on the one
hand and the Provisional Government of Hungary on the other.
2. The Allied Control Commission shall be headed by a Chairman who
shall be the representative of the Soviet armed forces. Attached to
him there shall be: a vice-chairman of the Commission; a political
adviser; two assistants to the Chairman; a chief of staff of the
Commission.
Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States of
America will be included in the composition of the Allied Control
Commission.
The Allied Control Commission shall have its own seal.
The seat of the Allied Control Commission shall be Budapest.
3. The Allied Control Commission shall be composed of:
- (a)
- a staff
- (b)
- a political division
- (c)
- an administrative division
- (d)
- a military division
- (e)
- an air force division
- (f)
- a river fleet division
- (g)
- an economic division
4. During the first period, i.e. from the moment of the entry into
force of the armistice to the end of hostilities against Germany,
the Chairman (or Vice-Chairman) shall call meetings and inform the
British and American representatives of policy directives (i.e.
directives involving matters of general principle) prior to the
issuance of such directives to the Hungarian authorities in the name
of the Commission, and also take note of such observations as the
British or American representatives may desire to make.
5. During this first period, the representatives of the United
Kingdom and the United States of America shall have the right:
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- (a)
- to receive oral and written information from Soviet
officials of the Commission on any matters connected with
the fulfillment of the armistice agreement.
- (b)
- to put forward for the consideration of the Commission
proposals of their governments on questions connected with
the fulfillment of the armistice agreement.
- (c)
- to receive copies of all communications, reports and other
documents which may interest the governments of the United
Kingdom and the United States of America.
- (d)
- to make journeys to the provinces. For this purpose they
shall apply to the Vice-Chairman regarding the arrangements
to be made.
- (e)
- to participate in general conferences or meetings of the
chiefs of divisions of the Commission.
- (f)
- to communicate through the Chairman of the Commission, the
Vice-Chairman, or the chief of the appropriate division,
with the organs of the Hungarian Government.
- (g)
- to determine the size and composition of their own
delegations.
- (h)
- to communicate directly with their respective governments
by cipher telegram and by diplomatic mail, for which purpose
they shall have the right to receive and despatch diplomatic
couriers by air at regular intervals, by agreement with the
Allied (Soviet) High Command.
- (i)
- to determine the amount of money required from the
Hungarian Government for the expenses of their respective
staffs and to obtain such funds through the
Commission.
6. The Allied Control Commission shall have its representatives in
the provinces, districts, ports, and at the most important
enterprises for the organization of local control.
7. The Vice-Chairman and assistants to the Chairman of the Allied
Control Commission and also the chiefs of divisions shall have the
right, through the local military command, to call in
specialist-officers for consultation, for making surveys or for
working out special questions which arise during the work of the
Allied Control Commission.
8. Liaison with the Hungarian Governmental authorities shall be
effected by representatives of the Allied Control Commission not
lower than a chief of division of the Commission and in the
provinces, districts and ports by the appropriate representatives of
the Commission.
[President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston S.
Churchill, and Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, Chairman of the
Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union, with their
advisers, met in conference at Yalta, February 4–11, 1945. The
three leaders agreed upon a “Declaration on Liberated Europe”
providing for joint action by the three powers in meeting
political and economic problems of liberated Europe, in
accordance with democratic principles. For text of the
Declaration, see item V of the Report of the Crimea Conference,
February 11, 1945,
Foreign Relations, The Conferences at
Malta and Yalta, 1945, page 971. Regarding the
consideration of the Declaration
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at the Conference, see
ibid., index entry on “Declaration on
Liberated Europe” page 1002. Regarding the
consideration of other issues related to Hungary, see
ibid., index entry on “Hungary” page
1006. For the undated Briefing Book Papers on the
United States position on Allied Control Commissions in Rumania,
Bulgaria, and Hungary, and United States policy regarding
Hungary, prepared for President Roosevelt and the Secretary of
State for use at the Yalta (Crimea) Conference, see
ibid., pages 238–240 and 242–245.]
