COMMUNIST HANDLING OF CZECH FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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• Publication Date: October 28, 1948
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analogy with the Communist Party c s stand on the Hungarian territorial prob. m,
LUzICE LAUSX`Pb
7, the mov rent to detach the Lausitz area from Germany and incorporate it into
Czechoslovakia was taken seriously only to a limited extent by the Czech
Government in 19146. Its chief promoter was Josef DAVID, Chairman of the Czech
Parliament,, Motivated by a desire to escape Russian administration, the
Lausitz-German leaders of the annexation movement approached the Foreign Min-
istry in Prague for material assistance, such as food and textiles, in 1946;
some of their requests were granted,
8., Early in 1947 th-1 Lausitz movement had antiidussian leaflets printed in
Liberec, Czechoslovakia, which wore distributed in Germany, Thereupon, the
Russians drew the attention of General DASTI,H of the Czech Military Mission
in Berlin to the fact that they were not interested in having the Lausitz
movement continue,
,, After this,tha Czechs lost interest in the annexation of the Lausitz areas
and discontinued the material assistance to the movement s s leaders. The Suva-
meat continued to play a small political role, as the Czechs used it to dir-
courage he Poles from asking for more than a minimum of the Tesin area by
appearing, in turn., to re:,ounce their claims on the Lausitz area. A small
club and information office of the movement still existed in February 1948,
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These activities were tolerated but not supported
by the Ministry of the Interior.
O? The movement to annex the Lausitz area era essential) promoted by Germans
who disliked living under Russian rule .he desire to us itr 25X1
their area. with Czechoslovakia ceased when that country was taken over by the'
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CARPATHOtUKRAINF
2 Throughout the tar the Carpatho-Ukraine was represented in the CzechoslovaJ
State Council. in. London by Ivan PIr`i`RUSCAK of Uzhorod, There 'was no hint ett-M..
the area was liberated by Russian troops that the Soviet Union planned to in-
corporate the CWrpatho Ukraine into its territory,
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~. _. .Then the Germar s were driven out of ;Part of the Carpatho-UkreJme, a
Czechoslovak d ;legation . headed by Minister of Social. Welfare Frantisek
11EC, went to. Chu. t in the Carpatha,l nine to take over the admin.'=?stratic,
of the liberated area. X&EC was accompanied by the Communist Member of
Parliament, Jonei i.ALO, and by Ervin POLAK of the Ministry of the Interior.
At the end of 194i. they were joined there by PE' ZUSCAK.
14 rt This delegation, including its Ccus unsist members,, was greatly surprised to
find thwt Titan ?URJANICA. a prewar Ot maunist Party secretary in Makacevo,
Carpathc-L':craine ., and a member of the Czechoslovak Brigade in Russia, had
instruc ions differing from theirs, He told the Czech delegation that the
people- of the Carpatho-Ukraine were united in their wish to join the Soviet
Union. iftien the NFMEC delegation refused to yield to his pressure, they
fontsd themselves under arrest for several hours,
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After heated discussions with TUUIIJANICA, the whole NE1+IEC delegation at about
the turn of 1944/45 traveled to Moscow to see 1)LO .0Vt, The interview woe a
brief one ; MOLOTOV told the delegation that the will of the people had to b.3
respected.; The delegates then found that Kleos nt GOTIVALD had only just been
informed of the cession of the Carratho-Ukraine to Soyiet Russia, and had h;,d
no opportunity to instruct BALD and P?LAK according-1,
The London Government was consideraoly upset by these developments but had do
alternative but to give in, The treaty was negotiated and signed MOLOTC
. t ? ? ING t, and possibly other Czech officials. I
rlmej there existed no prior agreement on the cession of the
Carpatho-Ukraine, either within the ,Communist Party or with members of the
Czech Government..
l7. The treaty of cession stipulated thitt Czechs and Slovaks and those Ukrainians
who had fought with the Czech Army during the war would have the right to cjzt
for Czech citizenship. Other Ukrainians and the Hungarians had. no such
right. Those who opted for Czech citizenship, after their option had been
approved by the Russians., would be antitled to move to Czechoslovak: ..
25X1 Negotiations for the
Russians were carried on by officials of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic into
25X1 which the territory was incorporated. At one point during the negotiations.,
25X1 the Ukrainians asked the Czechs to evacuate Jews[alo g with thy-
25X1 Czechs and Slovaks, approxi .tely 15,000 Czechs and
Slovaks opted for Czech citizenship and should have been allowed to leave for
25X1 Czechoslovakia proper,. its e;rer, only about 4,500, were given permission to ,o,
19~, When the territory was turned over to Soviet ilussia9 the borders were irms&.-
ately sealed; approximately 150 Czechoslovak nationals residing elsewhere 11
Czechoslovakia and equipped with valid Czech travel documnts, found themes"Mvei
25X1 trapped in'the Carpatho-Ukraine, Steps were undertaken through the CP to
allow them to return to Czecrwslovakfa, but they neve:?
succeeded. The Russians argued that anyone W115 uersixgd-TU Leave ussiax te-=?ri-
Cory was a priori an enemy of the Soviet Union; and that the only place for
enemies of the Soviet Union was inside the Soviet Union.
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