Governments, both in the Czech territories and in Slovakia  
and Carpathian Ruthenia. In view of the fact that the issue here   
concerns war events which have not yet been finished,  
their desire is that all States and Powers with which the  
Czechoslovak Republic maintained diplomatic relations until  
September, 1938 should preserve a neutral attitude at least,  
if possible, in the same spirit as the United States of  
America or Great Britain, who never, not even before or after  
the outbreak of war in 1939, discontinued their international   
relations with the Czechoslovak legations in Washington and   
London. The Czechoslovak Government has seen that the  
Holy See has not found it possible to adopt the same point  
of view, which of course might cause certain complications  
between the Czechoslovak Republic and the Holy See at the  
end of the present war.
 
     
 
 
Taking into account this point of view of the  
Holy See hitherto and especially the presence in the Vatican  
of the delegate of Slovakia, the Czechoslovak Government  
is already now considering how these difficulties might be  
avoided in good time. It takes this opportunity of putting  
on record the following facts about the present internal