760C.60F/231: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 22—5:38 p.m.]
1548. The Polish Ambassador informed me this evening that he had had another acrimonious conversation with Bonnet this afternoon in the course of which he had told Bonnet that Polish troops were prepared to cross the border and seize the Teschen District at once if [Page 638] satisfaction should be given to the German population of Czechoslovakia without satisfaction being given to the Polish. He said that Bonnet had used the argument that the Poles should wait and that Poland would receive satisfaction after a few weeks and Hungary would receive satisfaction after another few weeks. The Polish Ambassador said that he had replied to Bonnet that Poland was unwilling to be a party to any such immorality and that the Polish Government was shocked that the French and British Governments should be so unfair to the Czechoslovak Government as to conceal from the Czechoslovak Government that they intended to turn over to the Poles and Hungarians their minorities.
The information of the Polish Ambassador indicated that Hitler would receive Chamberlain most politely and would not shoot Santa Claus. I am sure that it is unnecessary to impress upon you once more that the danger of an entry of the Polish Army into the Teschen District is real and immediate.