Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, Europe, Volume V

President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister (Churchill)¹¹

Washington, 12 March 1945.

715. Your No. 909¹² points directly to an urgent necessity of our taking every practicable means of accomplishing the corrective measures in Poland that are envisaged in the agreements reached at Yalta.

The Yalta agreements, if they are followed, should correct most of the abuses alleged in your 909.

In my opinion as expressed in my 714, we should leave the first steps to our Ambassadors from which we may hope to obtain good results.

When and if it should become necessary because of failure of the Ambassadors we may have to appeal to Marshal Stalin for relief for the oppressed inhabitants of Poland.

Roosevelt

11. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
12. Dated March 10, 1945, not printed; it forwarded a summary of information received from within Poland regarding the oppressive character of Soviet Russian and Communist Polish rule in Poland. The information had been transmitted to Prime Minister Churchill by the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile at London, Tomasz Arciszewski.