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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State80
I went to the President this morning with Ambassador Lane, who wished to talk over some of the issues with regard to Poland. Mr. Lane feels that our attitude towards Soviet Russia in connection with the Polish issue should be integrated with the many other issues in Central Europe, particularly the Soviet blackouts in the Balkan states and the states of Central Europe. The President said that he had precisely the same opinion and that this would be the fundamental subject which he intended to discuss at the Big Three meeting. There was some further talk with regard to the arrest of the 16 Poles and the choice of Poles for consultation in setting up a unified Polish government. It was felt that, while Mr. Hopkins is still negotiating in Moscow and while the San Francisco Conference is still going on it would be desirable not to exert too much pressure. The President, [Page 325] however, left Mr. Lane in no doubt as to his intention to insist on the eventual removal of the Soviet blackout in the countries mentioned.
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- For additional details regarding this conversation, see Lane, I Saw Poland Betrayed, pp. 114–115.↩