Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Winston Churchill

NLT-184 CR 6579 DIT 072052 7 JUNE 1945 PRIORITY S. PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED by authority of Papert C= NUMBER 63 is AND Kol.V P331 MERT TO: THE PRIME MINISTER Initials He Date 4-7-73 FROM: THE PRESIDENT I HAVE JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM HARRY HOPKINS ON THE POLISH MATTER. HE REPORTS THAT STALIN WAS ADAMANT IN REFUSING TO SUBSTITUTE POPIEL FOR KOLODZEI. HE INSISTED THAT THE LONDON LIST BE LIMITED TO THREE AND THE ONLY CONCESSION HE WILL MAKE IS TO SUBSTITUTE JULIAN ZAKOWSKI FOR KOLODZEI OR POPIEL FOR STANCZYK. SINCE MIKOLAJCZYK I INSISTS ON STANCZYK, HOPKINS BELIEVES WE SHOULD LEAVE HIM ON THE LIST INSTEAD OF SUBSTITUTING POPIEL. ACCORDING TO STALIN, ZAKOWSKI IS A TEACHER OF ENGINEERING AT LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY AND IS NON-PARTY. WE HAVE NO PRECISE INFORMATION REGARDING HIM BUT PERHAPS MIKOLAJCZYK CAN GIVE US SOME GUIDANCE AS TO WHETHER IT WOULD BE BETTER TO ACCEPT ZAKOWSKI FOR KOLODZEI. THE TENTATIVE LIST AGREED TO AT MOSCOW IS NOW COMPOSED OF MIKOLAJCZYK, STANCZYK, KOLODZEI OR ZAKOWSKI FROM LONDON; WITOS, ZULAWSKI, KUTRZEVA, KOLODZIERSK AND DRZYZANOWSKI, NON-LUBLIN POLES FROM POLAND, PLUS THREE OR FOUR LUBLIN REPRESENTATIVES. HOPKINS POINTED OUT TO STALIN THAT ALTHOUGH THE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON THE LIST WAS A