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

740.00119 Potsdam/6–645: Telegram

Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, Adviser to President Truman, to the President

[Extract]⁵⁸

[Moscow,] May 30, 1945.

[301835.]

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I completed the exposition of your position relative to Poland with Stalin. The conference tonight⁵⁹ was encouraging. It looks as though Stalin is prepared to return to and implement the Crimea decision and permit a representative group of Poles to come to consult with the Commission. We are having what both Stalin and I emphasized would be an informal exchange of views on possible candidates to come here for consultation with the Tri-partite Commission at an early date. In preparation for this exchange of views, Harriman will go over with the British Ambassador the list of candidates which we and the British have already submitted.

58. Another portion of this telegram is printed in Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. i, p. 88. The text was communicated to the Secretary of State by Admiral Leahy in a memorandum of May 31 (740.00119 Potsdam/5–3145).
59. See memorandum of the fourth Hopkins-Stalin conversation, May 30, supra.