760C.61/1084: Telegram
The Ambassador to the Polish Government in Exile (Biddle) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 10—6 p.m.]
Polish Series [No.] 34. Supplementing my 31, May 8, 4 p.m. In conversation with Sikorski today, he said in connection with the problem of working out the reestablishment of Soviet-Polish relations that he and his Government had been encouraged by a number of sources to hold steadfastly to the attitude of not sacrificing matters of substance, notably by M. Huseyin Orbay, the Turkish Ambassador to Great Britain (who recently also told me that his countrymen would [Page 418] be looking with anxiety at the outcome of the current Polish-Russian controversy, and that he hoped the Allies would not withhold support from the Poles), and by officials of the Greek and Yugoslav Governments here. Their attitude in brief, Sikorski said, was that this was a “test case”.
King Haakon75 also told me in strict confidence that members of his predominantly socialist government had become so disturbed by these events (the King used the term “communist-shy”) that he had felt it necessary to try to bring their attitude into better perspective.
- Haakon VII, King of Norway.↩