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State Department Briefs Files
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
April 18, 1950
TOP SECRET
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
CZECHOSLOVAKLA
We have advised our Embassy in Praha that,
while we assume that the Czech government
will continue on a deliberately provocative course designed to reduce
the Embassy to the status of foreign missions in Moscow, we doubt
that it would be advisable to take retaliatory action until the Czech
government makes a direct move against our Embassy. We want to
make certain that the Czechs have an opportunity to consider our recent
approach, and we also desire to make clear to world opinion our
scrupulous regard for observance of normal diplomatic practices. If
the Czech government takes direct action against Embassy Praha, how-
ever, we shall consider closure of the Czech consulates in this country.
USSR
We have instructed Ambassador Kirk in
Moscow to deliver urgently to the Foreign
Office our reply to the Soviet note on the missing Navy Privateer, since
we plan to make the note available to the press at noon today. Our note
points out that the Privateer - the only US plane in the air in the Baltic
area on April 8 - - -was wholly unarmed, did not fly over any Soviet terri-
tory, and as a consequence must have been fired on by Soviet military
aircraft over the open sea. Our note protests "in a most solemn
manner" this violation of the elementary rules of peaceful conduct
between nations, demands a thorough investigation, and demands that
"strict and categorical" instructions be issued to the Soviet Air Force
that there be no repetition of such incidents which "magnify the diffi-
cultie'" of maintaining peaceful international relationships. We also
state that we expect the USSR, upon completion of its investigation, to
express regret for the behavior of its aviators and to pay appropriate
indemnity.
E.O.
3-402
State Dept. C
March 6, 1982
By, DEB NLT, Date 5-13-85
IOP SECRET