740.00119 EW/5–2345: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 23—9:50 p.m.]
2913. For the President from Harriman.47
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I also had a long talk with Mikolajczyk who is most pessimistic about developments in Poland because of the arrest of the Independent Democratic leaders and the solidifying of the Communist program and control of the Warsaw Govt. At the same time he is completely out of sympathy with the unrealistic attitude of the London Polish Govt. His only hope is, of course, that you and Churchill can ameliorate the present trend and prepare the way for free elections by permitting open discussion in Poland.
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Caffery
[According to a statement released to the press by the White House on May 23, President Truman had requested Mr. Harry Hopkins, Adviser to the President, to undertake a special mission to Moscow. Mr. Hopkins was to proceed in company with Ambassador Harriman to Moscow to converse with Marshal Stalin upon matters under discussion between the Soviet Government and the Government of the United States. For text of the announcement, see Department of State Bulletin, May 27, 1945, page 953. Mr. Hopkins left Washington on May 23 and arrived in Moscow on May 25. Between May 26 and June 6, he had six conversations with Marshal Stalin. He left Moscow on June 7 and arrived in Washington on June 12. For further documentation regarding Mr. Hopkins’ mission to Moscow, see Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), volume I, pages 21–62. See also Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York, Harper amp; Brothers, 1948), chapter XXXV.]
- Another portion of this telegram is printed in Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. i, p. 20.↩
- Ambassador Harriman had stopped in London and Paris en route to Moscow from Washington.↩