860C.01/3–645: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
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636. We had three more unproductive hours of discussion at the meeting of the commission on Poland this evening, going over much the same ground as last time.
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Every argument Clark Kerr and I advanced was brushed aside. For example I told him that I knew the President would be shocked to learn of Molotov’s obstruction to the progress of the work of the commission in objecting to our calling representative Polish democratic leaders to Moscow. I pointed out that Marshal Stalin had agreed to the inviting of Sapieha and Witos to Yalta1 and I failed to understand why Molotov now went back on this position. In reply he said that the communique was the “anchor” for the commission’s work and that no other conversations at Yalta had a bearing.
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