860C.01/723: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
1381. The Soviet Ambassador71 called on me on May 27, to discuss the question referred to in your 1860 May 24.72
The Ambassador stated he had instructions from his government to inform the American Government that a group of representatives of the National Council of Poland had recently arrived in Moscow from Warsaw. The Ambassador indicated that representatives of the Council had stated that they were fighting Germans and that they therefore needed arms to continue the struggle, that they would be willing to work with the Polish officials in London although they did not like some of them, and that they desired to establish relations with the Soviet Government, Great Britain and the United States. I replied that as regards furnishing arms, it is our general policy to help anyone who is fighting Germans.
I then inquired as to what kind of relations this group intended to enter into. The Ambassador replied that he did not know but assumed that it meant some sort of political relations short of diplomatic relations. I stated that in contrast to the question of arms, it would be a very difficult, complicated matter for this Government to enter into political relations with this group.