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Telegram from Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson to the United States Embassy, Moscow
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DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652. Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or
TOP SECRET
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10. 1972
By NLT-tiv NARS Date 7-23-75
April 23, 1945
Memorandum of meeting at the White House, 2:00 p.m., April 23.
PRESENT: The President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary
of War, the Secretary of Navy, Admiral Leahy, General Marshall,
Admiral King, Mr. Dunn, Ambassador Harriman, General Deane, and
Mr. Bohlen.
The Secretary of State told the meeting that Mr. Molotov had
arrived in good spirits yesterday and had had a good talk with the
President yesterday evening but that at the Foreign Ministers meet-
ing later great difficulties had developed over the Polish question.
The continuance of the meeting this morning had produced no improve-
ment and a complete deadlock had been reached on the subject of the
carrying out of the Yalta agreement on Poland. The Secretary said
that the truth of the matter was the Lublin or Warsaw Government was
not representative of the Polish people and that it was now clear
that the Soviet Government intended to try to enforce upon the
United States and British Governments this puppet government of
Poland and obtain its acceptance as the legal government of Poland.
He said that as they all recalled at Yalta an agreement had been
reached regarding the formation of a new Polish Government representa-
tive of the people by means of the reorganization of the present
provisional government in consultation with other Polish democratic
leaders. He said it had been made plain to Mr. Molotov how seriously
the United States Government regarded this matter and how much public
confidence would be shaken by our failure to carry out the Crimean
decision.
The President said that he had told Mr. Molotov last night that
he intended fully to carry out all the agreements reached by
President Roosevelt at the Crimea. He added that he felt our agree-
ments with the Soviet Union so far had been a one way street and that
could not continue; it was now or never. He intended to go on with
the plans for San Francisco and if the Russians did not wish to join
us they could go to hell. The President then asked in rotation the
officials present for their views.
Mr. Stimson siad that this whole difficulty with the Russians over
Poland was new to him and he felt it was important to find out what
the Russians were driving at. He said in the big military matters the
Soviet Government had kept their word and that the military authorities
of the United States had come to count on it. In fact he said that
they had often been better than their promise. He said it was important
to find out what motives they had in mind in regard to these border
countries and that their ideas of independence and democracy in areas
that they regarded as vital to the Soviet Union are different from ours.
Mr. Stimson