860C.01/12–2044: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 21—10:30 p.m.]
4936. I wish to invite attention to the significance of the article by Dr. Stefan Jedrychowsky which appeared in Pravda for December 18 and was reported in my 4899, December 18.35
Jedrychowsky is not only a member of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, charged in particular with the conduct of propaganda and informational activities but is also the Chief Assistant to the representative of the Polish Committee in Moscow. Actually, the representative himself, Rzymowski, has not been much in evidence here, so that Jedrychowsky seems to have been thus far for all practical purposes the principal liaison man between the Soviet Government and the Lublin Poles.
The devotion of nearly one-half of the foreign affairs page of Pravda to an article written by a person who is ostensibly a foreign representative in Moscow and treating of central European border questions which are of the greatest interest to the Soviet Union is not a common occurrence, and could hardly have taken place except as a result of a decision in high Soviet circles. For this reason, particular attention should be given to Jedrychowsky’s statements, which call for a future boundary between Germany and Poland running from north to south along the line of the Oder River and the lower Neisse to approximately the most northerly point of the Czechoslovak frontier, Goerlitz, and including the port of Stettin in the Polish area.
- Not printed.↩