Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, General: The United Nations, Volume I

500.CC/3–l 245

The Soviet Embassy to the Department of State

[Translation]

Aide-Mémoire

On February 26 the Ambassador of the United States in Moscow handed to the Soviet Government an Aide-Mémoire containing a draft of a public declaration by the American Government³⁰ in connection with the question of the invitation of representatives of Poland to the Conference of the United Nations in San Francisco. On February 28 [27?] in reply, an Aide-Mémoire of the Soviet Government was delivered to the Embassy of the United States in Moscow,³¹ in which it was stated that the question of the invitation of Poland to the Conference in San Francisco requires additional discussion.

At the present time the Soviet Government deems it necessary to communicate the following in connection with this question:

The Soviet Government agrees that if by the time of the convening of the Conference in San Francisco the Provisional Government which is acting in Poland now is reorganized and a provisional Polish Government of National Unity as provided by the decisions of the Crimean Conference is created, an invitation to send its representatives to the conference indicated should be sent to this Government. At the same time the Soviet Government considers that if, due to the complication of this question, the reorganization of the Polish Provisional Government is not achieved or completed, then the representatives of the Provisional Polish government now acting in Warsaw should be invited, as those of one which exercises power over all the territory of Poland and enjoys the support of the Polish people. As is entirely comprehensible, the absence of the representatives of Poland from a broad international Conference like the one at San Francisco could not be explained.

The Soviet Government considers as absolutely necessary the immediate discussion of the question mentioned by the Governments of the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain and the coming to an appropriate decision, keeping in view the circumstance that India, or such small countries as Haiti, Liberia, Paraguay, although they are not in diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, have been invited to the conference in San Francisco, without objection on the part of the USSR.

A similar Aide-Mémoire is being forwarded to the Government of Great Britain.

[ Washington ,] March 9, 1945.

30. Telegram 421, February 25, 4 p.m., to Moscow, transmitted the text of the proposed public statement which had been sent to Secretary Stettinius in Mexico City for his approval in telegram 366, February 22, 9 p.m., p. 83.
31. See telegram 570, February 27, midnight, p. 98.