033.60C11/69
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Office of European Affairs (Dunn)
The Polish Ambassador came in this morning to say that he had been informed by his Government that the Polish Prime Minister expected soon to have another conversation with Mr. Churchill, after which Mr. Mikolajczyk would wish to come to the United States. The Polish Ambassador asked whether he was correct in his understanding that the Polish Prime Minister’s visit had been indefinitely postponed by the President and that it would be necessary to take up the question anew in the event of his desiring to come here in the near future. I said that the Ambassador’s impression of the present status of the visit was entirely correct—that it had been postponed for an indefinite time.
The Ambassador then stated that his Government desired him to raise the question of whether a new United States Ambassador would be appointed to replace Mr. Biddle, recently resigned.73 He said his Government felt that the absence of a new Ambassador was causing them considerable embarrassment in their present difficult position as this was being interpreted by the Soviet Government, as well as by the German Government to indicate that the United States Government did not consider the Polish Government at the present time worthy of a new Ambassador to replace Mr. Biddle. He said his Government hoped very sincerely that an announcement could shortly be made of the appointment of a new Ambassador even if the new appointee were to remain in the United States and not proceed to his post immediately. The important thing to the Polish Government was the appointment and announcement of such a new Ambassador.
- Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., resigned on January 22, 1944, from the post of Ambassador to the Polish Government in Exile in order to enter military service.↩