860C.01/11–2644
The Acting Secretary of State ( Stettinius ) to the President
Memorandum for the President
Subject: Resignation of Mikolajczyk
I think you will be interested in looking at the two enclosed telegrams in regard to the Polish situation, the first reporting a conversation between Mikolajczyk and Schoenfeld in which the former explained in some detail his reasons for resigning1 and the latter quoting extensively from British press discussion of the subject.2 You will notice that a number of British papers erroneously attribute Mikolajczyk’s resignation to our refusal to guarantee Polish frontiers.
In order to counteract the London news stories regarding the frontier guarantee, the Department on November 25 released the following statement:
The specific question of the guarantee of the Polish frontier by this Government was not and could not have been an issue since this Government’s traditional policy of not guaranteeing specific frontiers in Europe is well known.