Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman
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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or
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Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10. 1972
WLT-HL
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Date
7-22-27
By
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
June 15, 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Current Foreign Developments
Polish Discussions Delayed. The sudden Moscow
announcement that the 16 arrested Polish democratic
leaders will be tried immediately has cast a distinct
damper on the Polish negotiations. It is unfortunate
that the USSR still seems to feel that the best way to
settle controversial problems is to confront the nego-
tiators with a fait accompli 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.
Mikolajczyk 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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