Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman, Current Foreign Developments
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OCR Page 1 of 4TOP SECRET
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
By NITHS MARS Date 626.75
June 15, 1945
MYMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Current Foreim Developments
Polish Discussions Delayed. The sudden Moscow
announcement that the 16 arrested Polish democratic
lenders will be tried immediately has cast a distinct
damper on the Polish negotistions. It is unfortunate
that the USSR still seems to feel that the best way to
settle controversial problem is to confront the nego-
tiators with a fait accomoli just before the discussions
start. Thus in 1941, as Polish Premier Sikorski arrived
in Moscow, it was announced that all Poles of Ukrainian
or White Russian descent would be considered Soviet citi-
zens and not Poles. The Lublin Committee was set up
while Mikolajczyk was en route from London to Moscow on
his first visit, and received formal Soviet recognition
while Mikolajczyk was en route for his second visit.
Just before Molotov left Moscow last spring to discuss
the Polish question here, the USSR signed its 20-year
pact with the Lublin regime.
Mikolajesyk is very worried and apprehensive over
this latest Soviet move. He feels that the holding of
such troops at the time of the Moscow consultation would
create "a very unwelcome atmosphere and a very bad po-
litical climate".
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