860C.00/11–1846: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Poland (Keith)
1094. Please inform Mikolajczyk without delay that we are considerably disturbed by his contemplated action of addressing note to Yalta Powers on subject Pol elections. It would appear to us that such action would precipitate crisis which we believe would be unwise. It would seem unlikely that Mikolajczyk could long remain in provisional govt after taking such action or that his party could participate in elections if Yalta Powers failed to reach agreement. In our view it is very doubtful if SovGov would even discuss such note with Brit and ourselves. You may inform him of note51 we are sending PolGov on subject of elections and point out that appeal by him to “Yalta Powers would embarrass our efforts by making it appear that we were backing one particular party in Pol elections rather than carrying out our obligation to insure free elections regardless of outcome. We fully realize that Mikolajczyk and his followers must decide for themselves what course of action is to best interest of Poland and while we have considered the reports that election percentages have already been fixed we are not convinced that it is still impossible for elections to be held which would in some measure at least reflect real situation in the country. It was for this reason that we felt it would be unwise for any democratic party to boycott elections and we fear that action proposed by Mikolajczyk would lead to situation which would in effect amount to a boycott.
We are informing the BritEmb of foregoing and you may discuss the matter with British. Repeated to London as no. 7774.
- For text, see telegram 1095, November 18, infra.↩