Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman, Current Foreign Developments

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TOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 DYNLTHAT NARS Date 6.26.75 June 20, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreim Develouments No News on Polish Conversations. No further news hed been received by this morning on the negotiations of the three Polish groups now in Moscow. The second day of the trinl of the 16 Polish leaders made it in- creasingly evident that the mein Soviet objective is to fix responsibility on the London Poles for an anti- Soviet policy by the Home Army and underground Govern- ment, as woll as for all subversivo activities in Poland against the Red Army and the USSR. The prosecution is also suggesting that the London Poles deliberately pro- vided false information about Soviet conduct in Poland in order to arouse British indignation and induce the British Government to intervene. A British official has observed that the course of the trial and its outcome would doubtless follow the course and outcome of the negotiations. The trial will probably last as long P.B the talks; if the latter end pretty much to Soviet liking the sentences in the former may be light. If the Soviets do not like the result of the talks, the sentences will doubtless be severe. Thus the trials acts as a sword of Democles poised over the heads of the conferses. Venezia and NATIONAL the to and