President Roosevelt to the Polish Prime Minister (Sikorski)99
My Dear Mr. Prime Minister: Thank you for your kind letter of March 16, 1943 which was forwarded to me through Ambassador Biddle.
I have given careful attention to the information contained in your letter, which in general conforms to that which I have received from your Ambassador. Since your last visit Mr. Ciechanowski has been keeping me currently informed with regard to developments in the relations of Poland with the Soviet Union, and I am asking to be kept informed of the developing situation.
I agree with you that it is important that the solid front of the United Nations be maintained and am glad that both you and the [Page 374] Polish Government are prepared to do all in your power to prevent any rupture of Polish relations with the Soviet Union. It is the purpose also of the American Government to do all that it properly can to promote unity among these nations in the prosecution of the war and in preparing for the peace.
You may be sure I am bearing constantly in mind the problems referred to in your letter in order that I may decide what course of action would be most helpful to pursue in the interests of Poland and of all the United Nations.
Sincerely yours,
- Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. This letter was enclosed in instruction No. 53, April 14, to the Ambassador to the Polish Government in Exile, for delivery to General Sikorski (760C.61/1018).↩