FORMAL U.S. NOTE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 10

FORMAL U.S. NOTE

COUP NOT RECOGNISED. GERMAN ANNEXATION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received March 22, 1.55 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 21. The United States in a formal Note to Germany, which was made public to-day, refused to recognise the legality of the absorption of Czechoslovakia. The text of the Note is as follows : '‘To the German Charge-D’Affaires: Sir.— L acknowledge receipt of your Note of March 17, in which, by tlio direction of your Government, you informed the United States Government of the terms of the decree issued on March 16 by the Government of the Reich announcing the assumption of a protectorate over the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. The United States Government has observed that these provinces arc now under the de facto administration of the German authorities. ‘The United States Government does not recognise that any legal basis exists for the status so indicated. The views of this Government regarding the situation, as well as regarding the related facts, w T ere made known on March 17. and enclosed herewith for the information of vour Government is a copy of the statement in which those views are expressed. “Signed.—Sumner Welles ’ (undersecretary of State).