Editorial Note
On July 29 Polish. Ambassador Winiewicz called on Under Secretary of State Lovett to deliver a note replying to the Secretary of State’s note of July 6 (supra). The Polish note contended that the facts evolving from American policy were not in conformity with the statements in the Secretary’s note. The note further argued that the “unilateral moves in Western Germany” had hampered efforts to solve the German problem on a just basis and in conformity with the Potsdam decisions. The Polish note complained that the vital interests of the Polish nation were being neglected particularly in the questions of security, control of heavy industry, and prevention of the revival of the economic supremacy of Germany in Europe. Ambassador Winiewicz, in his brief conversation with Under Secretary Lovett, took occasion to emphasize Poland’s anxieties regarding a satisfactory settlement of the German problem, and he observed that the Warsaw Declaration of Foreign Ministers of June 24 (see the editorial note, page 370) exactly corresponded to his Government’s views for a solution of the problem. Under Secretary of State Lovett’s memorandum of conversation and Ambassador Winiewicz’s note are included in file 740.00119 Council/7–2948. For the text of the Polish note of July 29, see Poland, Germany and European Peace, page 41. Similar notes were addressed to the United Kingdom on July 30 (ibid., page 34) and to the French Government on August 7 (ibid., page 43).