United States Proposal Concerning the Western Frontier of Poland and Admission to the United Nations

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July 30, 1945 WESTERN FRONTIER OF POLAND U.S. Proposal In conformity with the agreement on Poland reached at the Crimean Conference the three Heads of Government have Sought the opinion of the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity in regard to the acces- sion of territory in the north and west which Poland should receive. The President of Poland and members of the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity have beeniredeived at the Conference and have fully pre- sented their views. The three Heads of overnment reaffirm their opinion TRUNAN 5. that the final delimitation of the western frontier of Poland should CORDS await the peace settlement. 4 The three Heads of Government agree that, pending the final deter- mination of Poland's western frontier, the former German territories east of a line running from the Baltic Sea through Swinemunde, and thence along the Oder River to the confluence of the western Neisse River and along the western Neisse to the Czechoslovak frontier, including that portion of East Prussia not placed under the administration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in accordance with the understanding reached at this conference and including the area of the former free city of Danzig, shall be under the administration or the Polish State and for such purposes should not be considered as part of the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany.