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UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
860C.01/12-1944
The Secretary of State to the President
TOP SECRET
[WashIngTon,] December 29, 1944.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Suggested Reply to Stalin's Message on the Lublin
Committee
I have seen Stalin's reply dated December 27 to your message of
December 17 [16]¹ in regard to Poland in which he said that he can-
not accede to your request to postpone recognition of the Lublin Com-
mittee as the provisional government of Poland but on the contrary
suggests that this Government and those of the other Allied countries
should accord similar recognition.
1 Ante, p.
According to our information, the recognition of the Lublin Com-
mittee as the provisional government of Poland is expected to occur
on December 31. For this reason, while I would have much preferred
to have had an opportunity to discuss a reply to Stalin with you
following your return tomorrow, we feel that it would be most im-
portant to get an answer in his hands before the expected date of
recognition. I am, accordingly, attaching a proposed reply to Stalin.2
You will note that the position which this Government takes in the
reply is along the same lines as the attitude of the British Government,
set forth in the Prime Minister's telegram no. 854, December 16, to
you.³ If you approve this message, it can go tonight and be repeated
to Prime Minister Churchill for his information.
E. R. STETTINIUS, JR.
2 The reply as sent is printed infra.
3 Not printed.
Roosevelt Papers : Telegram
President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin 1
TOP SECRET
[WASHINGTON,] 30 December 1944.
1 Presumably sent to Harriman via Navy channels.
153. I am disturbed and deeply disappointed over your message of
December 27 in regard to Poland 2 in which you tell me that you
2 Ante, p. -
cannot see your way clear to hold in abeyance the question of recog-
nizing the Lublin Committee as the provisional government of
Poland until we have had an opportunity at our meeting to discuss
the whole question thoroughly. I would have thought no serious
inconvenience would have been caused your Government or your
Armies if you could have delayed the purely juridical act of recognition
for the short period of a month remaining before we meet.
There was no suggestion in my request that you curtail your practi-
cal relations with the Lublin Committee nor any thought that you
should deal with or accept the London Government in its present
composition. I had urged this delay upon you because I felt you
would realize how extremely unfortunate and even serious it would
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