760C.61/2194a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union ( Harriman )
135. Referring to Soviet-Polish differences, from the present trend of the impressions that seem to be gaining circulation that the Soviet Government is embarking upon an arbitrary line of conduct in the matter of its relations with the Polish Government, I feel that you should at least informally get before the Soviet officials our sincere hope that they would not want to tie themselves down to a procedure of narrow unilateralism. The last thing we would want to do would be to even suggest that there would be any question of the Soviet Government putting aside any of their rights, but we feel that there must be ways of having discussions within the larger framework of cooperation without in any way jeopardizing the rights the Soviet Government may have in the premises. We hope to send you further thoughts on this in a later communication.