President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister (Churchill)64
732. Thank you for your 928 of March 30 in regard to my proposed message to Stalin. I am very pleased to find that we are in such substantial agreement. I have carefully considered the helpful suggestions that you have made, and I am making the following three additions to cover the points you raise.
In regard to the point raised in your paragraph 2 I am adding immediately after the words “Yalta decisions on this point” the following sentence: “It is of course understood that if the Lublin group comes first no arrangements would be made independently with them before the arrival of the other Polish leaders called for consultation.”
In your paragraph 3 after the words “accorded the same confidence”, I am adding the phrase “and that any candidate for consultation presented by any one of the Commission be accepted by the others in good faith”.
In regard to your point 4 after the words “permitted to visit Poland”, I would add the following sentence: “As you will recall Mr. Molotov himself suggested this at an early meeting of the Commission and only subsequently withdrew it”.
I have just received your 929, and as I concur in your proposed message, I have sent mine to Stalin with the foregoing additions.
- Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.↩