File No. 860c.01/22
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 5, 6.20 a.m.]
7098. Your 5344, August 27, 4 p.m. [5 p.m.]
A committee of Poles representing all parts of the country, German, Russian, and Austrian Poland, has been organized in Paris to do practically what the proposed provisional government in the United States would do and this committee is represented to the British Government as being more completely representative than any other and as having working relations with bodies of Poles in Poland. With his present knowledge of that committee and of the plan proposed by you Lord Robert Cecil is disposed to see what the committee can accomplish before committing himself to the approval of your plan. In spirit, however, he heartily agrees with your purpose, and would welcome further information.
He thinks well of the raising of a Polish army in the United States. What help the British Government can give he can determine only after a more definite plan is submitted. And he would like to see a plan of what you think can be done. Concerning transporting such an army he reserved an opinion till he can be informed how large it is likely to be, hinting he could then consult the Admiralty. In general he falls in with the plan to raise such an army and awaits further information.