Hopkins Papers: Telegram

The President’s Special Assistant ( Hopkins ) to the President

top secret

MR–out —385. Personal and top secret to the President from Harry Hopkins.

Have discussed all of the cables relative to Poland with the State Department and Marshall. On the basis of these conferences, would suggest that you send substantially the following messages—

1.
To the President of Poland:1 “This will acknowledge your very urgent wire2 and I want to assure you that we are taking every possible step to bring Allied assistance as speedily as possible to the Warsaw garrison. I realize fully the urgent importance of this matter.”
2.
That you send a message to General Marshall asking him to have Deane explore this matter fully and urgently with the British and Russian military people.
3.
That the State Department will reply to Harriman’s wire to you and the Secretary3 coordinating whatever they may say with Marshall’s instructions to Deane.

Harry
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  1. At the request of Charles E. Bohlen, an unnumbered telegram was sent to Quebec by the White House Map Room correcting “President of Poland” to “Prime Minister of Poland”.
  2. The reference is to one of the two messages of September 10, 1944, from Prime Minister Mikołajczyk to Roosevelt. See ante, pp. 204, 205.
  3. i.e., Harriman’s telegram No. 3413 of September 10, 1944, ante, p. 203.
  4. The source text bears also the holograph signature “Harry L Hopkins”, but only the first name was to be transmitted.