Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Sumner Welles

Letter from Sumner Welles to Franklin D. Roosevelt transmitting changes to the text of a message from Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin regarding Soviet-Polish relations.

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-2- (b) we do not want to gloss over all the legitimate grievances of Poles of which this is one of the greatest. We have also given Poles definite impression that we propose to take this matter up urgently; (c) this issue, affecting as it does the morale of Polish troops fighting at our side, is a military question of direct interest to us. We therefore have special reasons for taking it up with Soviet Government; (d) moreover President has already mentioned this point in his message to Stalin.