860C.01/6–145: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé to the Polish Government in Exile (Schoenfeld), at London
Poles 17. Harry Hopkins has obtained Stalin’s agreement to inviting the following Poles to Moscow for consultation:
From London: Mikolajczyk, Grabski or Stanczyk, and Kolodzei.
From inside Poland: (non-Warsaw Poles) Archbishop Sapieha or Witos, Zulawski and Kutrzeba as well as two non-party men, Kolodzierski and Adam Krzyzanowski. The latter two were proposed by Stalin and we have little information regarding them except that Stalin stated that Kolodzierski is a Doctor of Economic Science, former Director of the Library of the Diet and present Chairman of the Cooperatives.
Hopkins and Harriman believe that this is a satisfactory list and carries out the Yalta agreement for consultation as we interpreted it. The President has approved of the list and has urged Prime Minister Churchill to approve it.
You are instructed to immediately discuss this proposal with Mikolajczyk and strongly urge him to give his concurrence to the list of names as proposed.
If you feel it is advisable you may also tell Mikolajczyk that Hopkins is going to do everything he can to get Stalin to agree to an amnesty for all the arrested Polish leaders who are charged only with having operated illegal radio transmitters. (Stalin indicated that the charge against the majority of these leaders was only for operating illicit radio stations.)
Please telegraph urgently Mikolajczyk’s reply.