Office of the Historian

860C.01/6–145: Telegram

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

[Moscow,] 1 June 1945.

010930. Supplementing my 010020. On reconsideration, Harriman and I believe the best plan would be that at the dinner which [Page 314] Stalin is giving for me tonight I should find an appropriate occasion to press hard for the release of the majority of the arrested Polish political leaders who Stalin said were charged only with illegal operation of wireless transmitters. I will tell him that I intend to leave Saturday66 to report to you and unless these prisoners are released I am not hopeful of getting agreement on starting the consultations on the basis of the list of names he has offered. I shall urge him strongly to take this action. If he specifically asks for a day’s delay I shall of course remain until Sunday. The above program is on the assumption that you do not instruct me otherwise. In which event I will of course remain.

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