860C.01/9–2244: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

3633. The Embassy has received a third person note from the Delegation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation in Moscow requesting it to transmit to the President a message of which the following is a translation in paraphrase.

“To Mr. Roosevelt, President of The United States.

To you Mr. President, as the organizer of the great common effort, the representatives of the Polish Socialist Party of the liberated territories assembled in first conference of the party at Lublin send their fighting cordial salutations.

The Polish Socialist Party will adhere to democracy and in the decisive struggle against the enemy, will use all its forces in mobilizing the entire population.

The success of the heroic American Army on the continent of Europe is greeted by the conference with joy. We send to the American soldiers our fraternal salutations.

We are convinced that American democracy will aid the Polish people in decisively defeating the enemy, in rehabilitating Polish economic life and in reconstructing an independent and great Polish state.

(Signed) Dr. Boleslaw Drobner, President of the General Council of the Polish Socialist Party; Mgr. Stefan Matuszewski, Secretary [Page 1435] of the Central Executive Committee of the Polish Socialist Party; Edward Osubka-Morawski, President of the Central Executive Committee of the Polish Socialist Party.”

Harriman