840.4016/12–1245: Telegram
The Ambassador in Poland (Lane) to the Secretary of State
Warsaw, December 12,
1945—3 p.m.
[Received 9:10 p.m.]
[Received 9:10 p.m.]
658. My 646 [to] Dept.91 Bentinck has shown me telegram from London authorizing him to take action concurrently with me re alleged mistreatment of Germans. As Bentinck was authorized and not instructed to make representations he proposes like Nelson at bombardment of Copenhagen to hold his telescope to his blind eye.
Lane