760C.62/1221: Telegram
The Ambassador in Poland (Biddle) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:08 a.m.]
238. For the President and Secretary.
1. Beck satisfied with London’s last night’s communication to Hitler gist of which is somewhat along following lines: Britain stipulates that Poland must be free to conduct direct negotiations with Germany and unhampered by intimidation. Moreover a just, reasonable solution of Polish-German differences was prerequisite to initiation of discussions for a general European settlement. In other words it was no longer merely a Polish-German dispute, any bilateral solution must subsequently be secured by international guarantees for such a solution would have to be of durable character and not a patchwork arrangement which might break down in the spring.