860C.01/7–3144: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 31—3 p.m.]
2818. The Embassy has received a communication datelined Chelm July 25 from the Polish Committee of National Liberation. The communication is signed by Morawski in his capacity as head of the Division of Foreign Affairs. It communicates the list of officials of the provisional executive body and informs the Embassy that Committee has selected as its temporary seat the city of Chelm, recently freed from German occupation and has commenced its activities there. The Committee describes as its first aim the strengthening of the struggle of the Polish people against the invaders in cooperation with the Allied Nations under the leadership of Great Britain, the USSR and the USA and the maintenance of relations with the Allied powers in the spirit of friendship and close cooperation.
The communication called for no reply, and I am making none.