Summary
 
               CZECHOSLOVAKIA 
 
 
        The Czechoslovak Government' s relations with the 
British and Soviet Governments are excellent, and present 
no problems. Czechoslovak-American relations (reviewed 
in Annex I) remain excellent, as they have been in the 
past.
 
        The Unlted States, Great Brltaln and the U.S.S.R. 
all favor restoration of independent Czechoslovakia with 
substantially lts 1937 frontiers. Although we favor re-
storing Ruthenia to Czechoslovakia we would not oppose 
its incorporation in the U.S.S.R. if the Soviet and 
Czechoslovak Governments should decide this in agreement. 
Czechoslovakia is not expected to present any problems 
for American post-war policies concerning it (detailed 
in Annex II).
 
       We have no questions to raise about Czechoalovakia 
now; nor have Great Britain or the U.S.S.R., as far as 
we know.
 
       The Czechoslovak Government itself however has 
raised one question which will require decision by the 
British, Soviet and American Governments. It has in-
formed them of its desire to expel to Germany all unde-
sirable Sudeten Germans (possibly two million) in the 
expectation that the three occupying powers will facili-
tate the resettlement of these persons within Germany,
without any change in the Czeoh-German 1937 frontier. 
The State Department is preparing a note in reply ex-
pressing, sympathy with the Czeohoslovak concern about 
the Sudeten Germans, but opposing any unilateral action 
to move them until an orderly solution can be worked out 
in agreement between the Governments of Czechoslovakia 
and the occupying powers responsible for the maintenance 
of order for military security in Germany. The Big-Three 
may wish to forestall precipitate action by reaching 
agreement along the lines of the separate memorandum on
 
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