Office of the Historian

840.70/3–2245: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, March 22, 1945—3 p.m.

2205. For EITO Delegation. In view of Soviet insistence on Polish participation in any revived EITO Conference without waiting for [Page 1399] tripartite agreement on a provisional government for Poland, and unwillingness of Department to permit any Polish participation until such agreement has been reached, Department would consider sympathetically any proposal acceptable to the British, French and the other Continental Allies for securing prompt action. Such a proposal might be the revival of the British scheme for an interim arrangement for western Europe, or a revival of the EITO Conference without the Poles and without the Soviets if they did not care to participate, for the purpose of working out such arrangements as might appear appropriate to the conferees. You are requested informally to communicate to the Foreign Office this view of the Department.26

Department is wiring Paris to the same effect.27

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  1. In telegram 3152, March 27, 1945, 6 p.m., from London, the Embassy reported that it was discussing with the Foreign Office the practicability of various alternative proposals for proceeding with EITO (840.70/3–2745).↩
  2. Telegram 1119, March 22, 1 p.m.; Moscow informed of this action in telegram 668, March 22, 1 p.m.↩