760C.61/1016: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 5—7 p.m.]
2409. We were told at the Foreign Office today that twice last week Raczyński called to tell Cadogan about Polish grievances against Soviet officials. According to Raczyński, the Soviets continue to arrest Poles in the Soviet Union who are trying to do relief work there among Polish refugees; to treat as Soviet citizens those Poles who in 1939 were living in the part of Poland then occupied by the Soviets; and to publish in the press in the Soviet Union and in the Soviet war news published here in London items unfriendly to the Polish Government. The items particularly objected to are those dealing with Soviet territorial claims.
Consideration is now being given, we were told further at the Foreign Office, either to requesting Ambassador Maisky to call at the Foreign Office, or having Clark Kerr call on Stalin, with a view to inducing the Soviet Government to desist from measures straining Soviet-Polish relations, and especially, to avoid raising any territorial issues at this time.