860C.01/583
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
The Ambassador of Poland called to see me this afternoon at my request. I communicated to the Ambassador the contents of the secret telegram from the Embassy in London of July 4 (No. 2844, July 4, 11 p.m.), relating to the Soviet Government’s intentions with regard to Poland.
The Ambassador then gave me a secret memorandum attached herewith.88 The Ambassador urged that this Government indicate to the Soviet Government our earnest hope that an arrangement between Poland and the Soviet Union be found upon the lines suggested by the Polish Government through the Soviet Ambassador in London, as outlined in this memorandum. I replied to the Ambassador that I would undertake to do so, but that at the same time I felt strongly that this Government should limit itself to an expression in general terms and should not enter into any discussion with the Soviet Government of the details involved in the proposed arrangements between [Page 242] Poland and the Soviet Union inasmuch as negotiations were now going on directly in London between the Polish Government and the Soviet Ambassador there. The Ambassador agreed that this was a wise course for this Government to pursue.
- Not printed. This memorandum listed some of the Polish conditions presented to Ambassador Maisky at the conference of July 5 in London, which Ambassador Biddle had reported in greater detail in Polish Series telegram No. 27, July 6, supra. ↩