Department of Defense Files
The Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin) to President Truman
I have received your message of May 5 on the Polish question.
The day before I sent you the text of my reply to Mr. Churchill to his message of April 28 on the same question. This text, I hope, you have now received.
Therefore it seems to me that there is no necessity to dwell again on this question. I think it necessary to add only the following.
As it seems to me you do not agree to regard the Provisional Polish Government as basis for the future government of national unity and do not agree that the Provisional Polish Government should occupy in this government a place which rightfully belongs to it. I must say that such a position does not give opportunity to reach a harmonious solution on the Polish question.