500.CC/3–1145
The Secretary of State to the Polish Ambassador (Ciechanowski)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Excellency the Ambassador of Poland and has the honor to acknowledge the Embassy’s note of March 11, 1945 concerning the fact that the Polish Government has not received an invitation to take part in the Conference which will be convened at San Francisco on April 25, 1945.
As the Embassy is aware, the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China agreed last month jointly to sponsor the Conference referred to in the Embassy’s note under acknowledgment. The invitations to the Conference have been extended by agreement of all the sponsoring Governments. It will also be recalled that at the Crimea Conference the three participating powers agreed upon steps looking to the establishment of a new provisional Polish Government, pledged to the holding of free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot, which would be called the “Polish Provisional Government of National Unity”.
Fully appreciating the importance of Polish representation at the San Francisco Conference, the United States Government earnestly hopes that it will be possible to establish the new Polish Provisional Government before the Conference is convened, and that the Governments sponsoring the Conference will agree to extend an invitation to it.