Editorial Note
The question of a joint American-British approach to the Soviet Government with regard to the evacuation from the Soviet Union of certain categories of Polish citizens appears to have been discussed by Roosevelt and Churchill at some time in the course of the Conference. According to the memorandum of conversation by Elbridge Durbrow of the Division of European Affairs, dated June 2, 1943 ( Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iii, p. 424), an officer of the British Embassy in Washington informed the Department of State that Churchill, at the suggestion of the British Foreign Office, had taken up with Roosevelt the question of American support of the British position with respect to the evacuation of Poles from the Soviet Union and that Roosevelt and Hopkins had agreed to send appropriate instructions to the American Embassy in Moscow. Those American instructions are set forth in telegram 427, June 12, 1943, to Moscow, ibid., p. 428. No official record of any Roosevelt–Churchill discussion on this subject has been found.