Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Winston Churchill

NLT-323 DECLASSINED by autharity of US - F.R.1945 TOP CECKET PRIORITY Vol.V P.314 1 JUNE 1945 Initials He Date: 6773 FROM: OPNAV TO : ALUSNA, LONDON 011546Z NCR 9409 NUMBER 53, PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET, FROM THE PRESIDENT TO PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL. Harry Hopkins nas just sent me a most encouraging message about the Polish situation. As perhaps you know, Stalin has agreed to invite to Moscow for consultation, in conformity with our interpretation of the Yalta agreement, the following Poles from London: Mikolajezyk, Grabski or Stanezyk, and Kolodzei. He has also agreed to invite for the consultations the fol- lowing non-Lublin Poles from inside Poland: Archbishop Sapieha or Witos, Zulawski, and Kutrzeba, as well as two non-Party men--Kolodzierski and Adam Kryzanowsdi, the latter two being Stalin's candidates. We know little about the last two men except that Stalin stated that Kolodzierski was a Doctor of Economic Science, former Director of the Library of the Diet, and present Chairman of the Cooperatives. Hopkina and Harriman approve of the list of names agreed upon and I have informed Hopkins of my whole-hearted approval. I feel that this represents a very encouraging, positive step in the long drawn out Polish negotiations, and I hope that you will approve the list as agreed to in order that we may get on with this business as soon as possible. In regard to the arrested Polish leaders, most of whom were apparently charged only with operating illegal radio transmitters, Hopkins is pressing Stalin to grant amnesty to these men in order that consultations may be