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

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TOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or 1972 B E.O. State letter, Aug. 6.26.75 Dept. NLITH of NARS Date BY June 12, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreim Developments Moscow Commission Invites Poles to Confer with It. Four-months to the day from the end of the Yalta Confer- ence, the Commission it set up "to consult with members of the Polish Provisional Government end with other demo- cratic lenders in Poland and abrond concerning the reorgan- ization of the Polish Provisional Government on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and Poles from abroad" has issued those invitations for consultation. Molotov, Harrimen and Clark-Kerr agreed on the invi- tations in Moscow June 11. They are being delivered to the persons within Polend through the Soviet Ambassador in Warsaw and to the Poles in England through the British Foreign Office. The Commission also apreed that as soon as the invitations had been delivered, with a request for its recipients to arrive in Moscow by June 15 for negotia- tions "concerning the formation of a Polish Provisional Government of National Unity", that a public statement would be made by the three governments for simultaneous relense in the morning press of the three countries on Wednesday, June 13. This will include the names of the persons to be invited and is now being drafted. About a dozen nemes, including Mikolacjozyk, will be on the list, broken down into three approximately equal groups of Warsaw ARCHIVES SEBVICE RECOROS AND N