Evening star., 1950-05-13
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closely approximated the contents
of the message.
The statement reviewed Czech
attacks of a political or propa-
ganda nature on the United States
during the past six weeks. It
suggested that these are part of
a pattern for all Sovietized East
ern Europe, aimed at isolating
the Eastern European peoples
from the Western world.
The latest of the incidents came
this week. The Czech government
forced the removal from the
American Embassy at Prague and
the consulate at Bratislava of
about 40 of the &c American Off
cials and employees stationed in
the two places.
In Prague today the Czechs
gave immediate close-down Or
ders to the British Cultural and
Information Services. The CzechS
accused the British of continu-
ously violating a 1947 cultural
agreement by spreading hostile
propaganda. They also accused
the British of employing persons
involved in anti-state activities.
u. N. Personnel Exempted.
The American note to the
Czechs today said that sin view
of recent actions of the Czech
authorities with reference to the
United States. the Czech govern
ment is requested within a rea-
sonable time to close its consulates
in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and
reduce the number of its total
personnel in the United States,
including all categories except
representation at the United Ma
tions, in accordance with the pres
ent reduced scope of relations be-
tween the two governments"
In addition to the actions Or
dered today. the American state
ment issued here held a possible
hint of further steps to be taken
if the Czechs Great more difficult
ties for Americans there.
The statement reviewed Czecho-
Slovak charges of mistreatment
by Americans in Germany of So
persons who escaped from the
Communist country in March. the
enforced closing of the United
States Information Service Offices
at Prague and Bratislava in April,
the custer of the American press
attache at Prague. and the forced
slash in American total personnel
this week.
"Set Course" Followed.
The statement said:
1T is all too apparent that
such actions of the Czechoslo-
yak government are not dictated
by the interests of the Czechoslo-
yak people or, for that matter, by
the interest of the present regime
in Czechoslovakia. They follow
set course which appears to have
been prescribed for the states of
Eastern Europe and indicate the
inability of the Czechoslovak gov
ernment to follow an independent
policy.
"In view of these many evidences
that Czechoslovakia under the
present government will not or
cannot conduct itself in its rela-
tions with the United States and
other democracies in a manner
compatible either with the tradi-
tions and culture of Czechoslo-
vakia, or with a decent regard for
the conventions of the community
of nations, this government is
examining the situation not only
with respect to the present, but
also for the future.
ut is now reducing the size of
its official representation.
"Since the United States can
not conduct normal diplomatic
and consular functions in Czecho-
slovakia, and since the relations
between the two governments are
being restricted in scope through
the foregoing actions of the
Czechoslovak government, the
latter has been requested within
a reasonable time to close its con-
sulates in Cleveland and Pitts
burgh and to make a reduction in
its official personnel in the United
States similar to that demanded
of the United States in Czecho-
Slovakia."