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

TOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 BINITINC NARS Date 9-18-75 June 26, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESID: NT Subject: Current Foreim Develomments Polish Mattera Proceeding Smoothly. Bierut and other Poles including Mikolajcayk will return to Warsaw Wednesday and on Thursday form the new government. They will notify the three members of the Poliah Commission by Friday of their netion and soon after that we will announce our recognition. Harriman had 8. frank informal discussion with the group on the question of the new Government's succession to the rights and obligations of the old. Bierut said the new government prepered to accept the prewar obligations but before making a commitment about the transactions during the war period wished to know more specifically about them. Bierut seid the Poles did not expect any treatment different from that the US had accorded to other countries occupied by the Nazis. Harriman has asked urgently for a. draft text along the lines of the Department's suggestion and for a very general statement of the Polish Government's assets and obligations in the US and the present status of Poland's obligations under the lend-lease agreement. The British will synchronize their recognition with ours and are considering suggesting that when the new government notifies the Big Three that it has been estab- lished in conformity with Yalta that it add a. pledge in this message of notification to hold free elections. French ds. have 8