860c.01/6–2545: Telegram
No. 488
The Ambassador in the United
Kingdom (Winant) to the Acting Secretary of State
us urgent
6398. …
. . . . . . .
Warner also told us that FonOff was considering suggesting to Dept through Brit Emb at Washington that when New Warsaw Govt notifies US Brit and Soviet Govts that it has been established in [Page 725] conformity with the Yalta Agreement it add a pledge in this message of notification to hold free elections.
Robert Hankey who served at Brit Emb Warsaw from 1936 to 1939, and who is at present in Eastern Dept of FonOff will, when recognition is extended[,] go to Warsaw as Chargé d’Affaires. Sent Dept as 6398, rptd to Moscow as 219.