860C.51/8–546: Telegram
The Ambassador in Poland (Lane) to the Secretary of State
us urgent
[Received August 6—6:25 p.m.]
1207. My telegram 1169, August l.2 I advised Prime Minister August 5 that I had notified Dept of receipt of material as promised by Prime Minister in connection with 40 million dollar Export Import Bank credit. I informed Prime Minister that as furnishing information to this Embassy would appear to fulfill conditions agreed upon, I assumed that there should be no further obstacle to finalization of negotiations for credit.
In reply to my suggestion that any statement on the subject should [Page 490] be made in Washington, Osóbka-Morawski said he is in entire agreement adding that if any statement were made by Polish Govt it would be in confirmation such statement as our Government might wish to make in Washington.
In view of foregoing I suggest that Dept give consideration to issuance of statement as soon as possible.3 It is important that statement should not be made immediately before or during meeting of National Council of Homeland which we believe will meet August 20 so as not to give impression that extension of credit has been influenced by local political considerations.
- Not printed; it reported that the final installment of Polish trade treaty information had been translated and sent by diplomatic mail pouch to the Department. Ambassador Lane expressed the feeling that the information submitted might properly be regarded as reasonable fulfillment of the Polish commitment. (860C.51/8–146)↩
- For text of the Department’s announcement of August 9, 1946, that texts of Poland’s economic agreements had been furnished to the United States Government and that final arrangements could therefore be made for the Export-Import Bank credit to Poland, see Department of State Bulletin, August 18, 1946, p. 335. Telegram 958, October 3, 1946, to Warsaw, reported that the $40 million Export-Import Bank credit agreement with Poland had been signed on October 2, 1946 (860C.51/10–346).↩