840.4016/12–745: Telegram
The Ambassador in Poland (Lane) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 9—2:31 p.m.]
646. Mytel 629, December 4, 2 p.m. British Ambassador states that he has received no instructions similar to those contained in Deptel 310, November 30, 6 p.m. re expulsion of Germans from Poland but he has addressed note to Foreign Office as have I embodying Allied Central [Control] Council decision re plan for transfer of Germans from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria to Germany. (Refer Berlin’s telegram 1147, December 1 [November 30].)
Bentinck says he fully agrees with me as to unwisdom of making representations to Polish Govt re alleged inhumane treatment of Germans as it would merely serve to irritate Poles and would not alter conditions which Bentinck claims have been exaggerated by Germans transferred from Poland.