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    "ocrText": "J. 333305-MONO-State\nGalley 402\nUNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF\n\"one big happy family\" approach and that \"Stettinius' recent state-\nment regarding Italy and Greece showed that the White House now\nbelieved we should use 'plainer, blunter speech'.' Newspapers inter-\npreted remarks by Secretary Stettinius at the Tuesday press con-\nference as showing that efforts had been useless toward solving the\n\"veto problem\" in voting in the Security Council and this was one of\nthe main reasons for the impending Big-Three Meeting. But the\nSecretary noted in his private calendar that \"the President did men-\ntion to me that he is not too worried about Stalin's position on voting\nprocedure.'\nSOVIET AND POLISH PROBLEMS\nLate Friday afternoon (December 29) Secretary Stettinius held a\nmeeting in his office with Messrs. Grew, Dunn, Bohlen, Durbrow and\nHayden Raynor, to confront the situation that the Lublin Poles would\nprobably \"declare themselves to be a provisional government which\nmight be so recognized by the Soviet Union, and perhaps by certain\nother countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.\" It was\nthe\nconsensus that the President should \"send Stalin a cable expressing\ndisappointment\" over his taking such action prior to the Big-Three\nmeeting and expressing hope for deferment. Mr. Stettinius phoned\nHyde Park \"about sending a message to \"Young [Uncle] Joe' on\nPoland\" and Miss Tully arranged for him to talk to President Roose-\nvelt the next day.\nSaturday morning (December 30) Ambassador Halifax phoned and\nasked if the Department had given thought to \"what we should say\nabout Lublin.\"\nMR. STETTINIUS: Yes. We worked through the night on it. I am\nseeing the President today. We must say the same thing.\n1 this\n1 Points appear in the original.\nLublin thing might break Monday.\nThe Secretary then called Mr. Matthews and \"wanted to know if\nthe boys were keeping in touch with things.\" Indicating complete\nagreement with the British, Mr. Matthews said that the Prime\nMinister in his last message declared \"he didn't intend to recognize\nat this time.\"\nAfter \"the President agreed with Bohlen and myself this afternoon\nthat it would be perfectly proper for us to make the statement over\nthe weekend,\" the Secretary instructed Bohlen to \"dictate that\nmessage before he goes home this evening.\" At three o'clock Satur-\nday afternoon, December 30, the President therefore sent Stalin a\ncable, as drafted in the Department:\n2 At this point there appear excerpts from the text of the telegram printed\nante, p.\nThe message was repeated to the Prime Minister with the notation:\n\"You\nwill see we are in step.' This reference was in response to an\nearlier plea for cooperation voiced by Mr. Churchill.\n3 See ante, p. footnote.\nVarious DEVELOPMENTS ABROAD\nThe hapless position of King Peter of Yugoslavia was presented to\nthe Department through\n[a] report which included Peter's long"
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