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Galley 228
UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
expandingly generous offers of territory in the West at the expense
of Germany.
I fully recognize our policy is not to commit ourselves in boundary
questions until the peace settlement. The question I have in mind
however is whether, if we have reservations in the present case, they
should not be registered on an appropriate occasion with the British
and Soviet Governments before these concepts become so fixed that
they are virtually a fait accompli.
W. A. H[ARRTMAN]
Roosevelt Papers
Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt 1
Translation 2
PERSONAL AND SECRET
[Moscow, December 27, 1944.]
1 Presumably transmitted by the Soviet Embassy at Washington.
2 Appears on the original.
I have received your message on Polish matters 3 on December 20.
3 This message is quoted in Roosevelt's No. 675 to Churchill, dated December
16, 1944 (ante, p.
As regards Mr. Stettinius' statement of December 18, I would prefer
to express myself about this during our personal meeting. In any
case the events in Poland have considerably moved ahead than it is
reflected in the said statement.
A number of facts which took place during the time after the last
visit of Mikolajczyk to Moscow and, in particular the radio-com-
munications with Mikolajczyk's government intercepted by us from
arrested in Poland rorists-underground agents of the Polish émigré
government-with all palpability proves that the negotiations of Mr.
Mikolajczyk with the Polish National Committee served as a screen
for those elements who conducted from behind Mikolajczyk's back
criminal terrorist work against Soviet officers and soldiers on the terri-
tory of Poland. We cannot reconcile with such a situation when
terrorists instigated by Polish emigrants kill in Poland soldiers and
officers of the Red Army, lead a criminal fight against Soviet troops
which are liberating Poland, and directly aid our enemies, whose
allies they in fact are. The substitution of Mikolajczyk by Arzy-
shevsky [Arciszewski] and, in general, transpositions of ministers in
the Polish émigré government have made the situation even worse and
have created a precipice between Poland and the émigré government.
Meanwhile the Polish National Committee has made serious
achievements in the strengthening of the Polish state and the appara-
tus of governmental power on the territory of Poland, in the expansion
and strengthening of the Polish army, in carrying into practice of a
number of important governmental measures and, in the first place,
of the agrarian reform in favor of the peasants. All this has lead to
consolidation of democratic powers of Poland and to powerful strength-
ening of authority of the National Committee among the wide masses
in Poland and among wide social Polish circles abroad.
It seems to me that now we should be interested in the support of
the Polish National Committee and all those who want and are capable
to work together with it and that is especially important for the Allies
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