Office of the Historian

Editorial Note

For documentation dated in August 1944 concerning aid to the Polish underground army which had risen against the Germans in Warsaw as the Soviet Army approached that city, see Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. III, pp. 1372–1395; Documents on Polish-Soviet Relations, pp. 308 ff.; Woodward, pp. 300–305; Ehrman, pp. 369–375.1

  1. As of September 1, 1944, an answer was still pending to President Raczkiewicz’ message to Roosevelt of August 12 (see Documents on Polish-Soviet Relations, pp. 339–340). The Department of State, after consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had submitted to Roosevelt a draft of a reply on August 31, but neither that draft nor the final text of the reply has been found in United States files, nor is the reply printed in Documents on Polish-Soviet Relations. The reply was sent by pouch to the American Embassy near the Polish Government in exile at London on September 8, 1944, for transmittal to Raczkiewicz (740.0011 E.W./8–1344).↩