706.60C47/4
The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Evatt) to the Secretary of State 83
Dear Mr. Cordell Hull: For your most confidential information, a new arrangement has been come to by which Australia will take over the representation of Polish interests in the U.S.S.R. This arrangement was made between the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill and myself, with the fullest consent of the British Government. The arrangement was stated by the Prime Minister to be “entirely agreeable” to the President.
M. Molotov has now indicated his consent. No publication whatever is to be made for the present.
In the course of the statement, the Australian representative at Moscow said “the proposal of Australia is made solely with the desire to promote the common interests of the United Nations and is animated by a warm admiration for the peoples of Soviet Russia and Poland alike”. I feel it my duty to let you know.
Yours sincerely,
- This letter was written by the Australian Minister for External Affairs while he was at the Australian Legation in Washington.↩