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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
The Soviet Ambassador called at my home last evening at 8:30 at his request and left with me the appended memorandum8 repeating the former request of the Soviet Government that Poland be invited to attend the San Francisco Conference.
I asked the Ambassador whether this memorandum was being likewise delivered to the other sponsoring powers, Great Britain and China. Mr. Gromyko said that he did not know.
I said that we would give full consideration to this memorandum but in the meantime I wished to say, in a purely informal way, that I thought it would be difficult to invite Poland to attend the conference until the proposed unified government had been set up. As things stand at present, Soviet Russia recognizes the Lublin Government while we recognize the Government in London, and it seems obvious that the establishment of the unified government should precede the issuance of invitations.
- Memorandum of March 22, supra. ↩