Memoranda from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman
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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) OI (E)
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Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
NARS Date 6.2675
May 5, 1945
ORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Major Political Problems in Connec-
tion with Austria and Czechoslovakia
This Government is now faced with major political
problems in connection with Austria and Czechoslovakia
on which we had every reason and right to expect real
Soviet cooperation with us. Instead, we have so far
had unilateral acts on the part of the Soviet Union,
i.e., a recognition of an Austrian Government without
consultation with us, refusal to agree to an airfield in
the United States zone in Vienna, and a refusal to per-
mit our Embassy to go to the seat of the Czechoslovak
Government.
It therefore seems that some hard bargaining is
going to become necessary before these problems are
settled in 8 manner satisfactory to us. The present
military situation and its apparent possibilities offer
some good material for such bargaining, provided imme-
diate action is taken. It is therefore suggested that
the Joint Chiefs of Staff be asked to consider urgently
the following:
If the American Armies pushed on to the Moldau
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River which runs through Prague, this would give us a
strong bargaining position with the Russians. This
river is 8 continuation of the Elbe where we have
stopped farther north. Furthermore, the United States
Third Army has now gone down the Danube through a good
part of Upper Austria, which will presumably be in our
zone of occupation in Austria. The Russians would,
however,
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