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    "title": "Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman",
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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (2)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\n-4-\nBYALL THO\nNARS Date 7-22-75\nYesterday the trial of the 16 democratic leaders\nwas opened in Moscow with all the fanfare usually\nsurrounding events the USSR intends to exploit for\npropaganda ends. The whole foreign press corps was\npresent. The US and UK Embassies sent observers.\nHarriman comments that it is difficult to see how\nholding the trial during the present Moscow conversa-\ntions can fail to have a most unfortunate effect on\nthe non-Warsaw Poles and greatly diminish prospects\nfor a satisfactory settlement.\nThe aged former Peasant Premier Witos has again\ndeclined his invitation on grounds of ill health while\nemphasizing he wholly agrees with the aims of the nego-\ntiations. Harriman and Clark Kerr have accordingly\nrequested Molotov to forward the agreed alternative\ninvitation to Kiernik.\nOn Monday Zulawski and Kutrzeba lunched alone with\nHarriman. They went into great detail on conditions\nin Poland since 1939 and substantially confirmed what\nother impartial sources have said. Moscow dominates\nthe Warsaw Government, which is distrusted by all classes,\nintellectuals, workers and peasants, and represents not\nover 10% of the Polish people. Neither in the press or\nat meetings is there any freedom of political expression,\nwith anyone expressing contrary views being branded a\nFascist. There have been many unjustified arrests, not\nonly by the Polish Security Police, but by the Russian\nNKVD which has no responsibility to the Warsaw Poles.\nBoth men recognize the essential requirement of a\nPolish policy oriented to the Soviet Union for security\nand firm friendly relations and in order to obtain at\nleast some semblance of Polish independence are ready\nto compromise. They say that the two other Poles selected\nby Molotov from within Poland completely share their\nviews. All four believe Mikolajczyk should be Premier\nand that the ministerial positions should be divided\nabout"
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