860C.01/7–344: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 3—6:40 p.m.]
2408. All papers for July 1 published a resolution adopted June 23 by the Board of Directors of the Union of Polish Patriots regarding the National Council of Poland. The resolution states that the Union of Polish Patriots welcomes the declaration of the National Council of Poland and the High Command of the People’s Army. It states that the Union, uniting Poles of different social groups and political opinions, has worked in the direction of resistance to the Germans and a struggle for an independent and democratic parliamentary Poland. The article states that the reactionary command of Sosnkowski’s territorial army not only fails to take part in the struggle of the Polish people but tries to paralyze the struggle by urging the people to remain inactive.
The Union does not recognize the “so-called emigrant Polish Government, based on the illegal Constitution of 1935”.83 The Polish people formed its own center in Poland, the National Council of Poland. “The Union of Polish Patriots recognizes in the National Council of Poland a true representative of our people and is confident that having been created by the most devoted patriotic elements of the Polish people the National Council of Poland will unite around itself all Poles and will mobilize them for struggle in close alliance with the peoples of the USSR, Great Britain, and the United States.” The [Page 1423] resolution concluded by expressing confidence that the National Council will create the conditions for the formation of a provisional national government enjoying the confidence of the people.
Full text of resolution follows by dispatch.84