Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Marshal Joseph Stalin

NLT-282 DECLasalFIED by authority of 8. of participate F.R.1945 AND : SERVICE TOP SECRET 4 MAY 1945 PRIORITY Initials. 4536 FROM: OPN4845 MAY 19 22 TO : ALUSNK, MOSCOW 0418492 NCR NUMBER 259, TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL, FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR MARSHAL STALIN. Part I Replying to your message of 24 April, Prime Minister Churchill has sent me a copy of his message to you of April 28. Since you are aware of the position of the United States Government from the messages you have received from President Roosevelt and myself, I need hardly tell you that in regard to the reorganization of the Polish Government I agree with the views Mr. Churchill has expressed in his message of April 28. Thi S govern- ment still considers that the Crimea decisions constitute a fair basis for the settlement of the Polish question and should be carried out. Part II The meetings of the three foreign secretaries, on the Polish matter have not yet produced a formula which is satisfactory. I consider it of the utmost importance that a satisfactory solution of the problem be worked out as soon as possible. I must tell you that any suggestion that the representatives of the Warsaw Provisional Government be invited to San Francisco, conditionally or otherwise, is wholly unacceptable to the United States Government. To do so would be the acceptance by the United States Government of the present Warsaw Provisional Government as repres- entative of Poland which would be tantamount to the abandonment of the Yalta agreement. Rsigned TRUMAN Released 041849Z May 1945: ROWON Cgdens Collers Jr OGDEN S. COLLINS, JH., CCM 14 Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. 100 for ISECRET Q