861.00/11899: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, August 13,
1941—3 p.m.
[Received 3:15 p.m.]
[Received 3:15 p.m.]
1488. The following announcement appeared in the Moscow papers today: “The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U. S. S. R., in an ukase of August 12, 1941, has amnestied all Polish citizens who are [Page 639] at present in confinement on Soviet territory as prisoners of war, or for other sufficient reasons.”1
Steinhardt
- This ukase was issued in fulfillment of the protocol to the agreement signed in London on July 30, 1941; for text, see Poland, Polish-Soviet Relations, 1918–1943, Official Documents (Washington, n. d.), p. 107.↩