760C.61/2202: Telegram
The Chargé to the Polish Government in Exile (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 4—7:30 p.m.]
17 Poles. My 2, January 7 and my despatches 494, January 10 and 486, December 22.55 In a statement issued last evening, Polish [Page 1357] Government announces creation in Poland of a “Council of National Unity”.
Text of statement is as follows:
“In his broadcast speech to Poland on the 6th January 1944 the Polish Prime Minister S. Mikolajczyk referred to the temporary organization of Polish authorities within Poland and revealed the fact that a Polish Government’s delegate was active there as the Prime Minister’s deputy.
Recent news received from Poland reveals another important step in the organization of the Polish underground state. It has been decided to transform the present political representation in Poland into a larger body and on January 9th the Polish Government’s delegate announced in a decree the formation in Poland of a Council of National Unity composed of delegates of the four main political parties. For the time being the Council of National Unity is holding its meetings in secret but the names of the members of the Council of National Unity will be revealed at the appropriate time.
The underground Polish state organization which has been active without any interval since the outbreak of war is assuming an increasingly formal aspect and beginning to work more and more openly in preparation for the moment when it will take full charge of the administration of Polish territories freed from the German invader.”
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