760m.6111/42
The Polish Ambassador (Potocki) to the Secretary of State
[Washington,] October 19, 1939.
Sir: Upon instructions from my Government I have the honor to inform you that the Polish Government, having taken cognizance of the pact of mutual assistance between Lithuania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed on October 10, 1939, have presented to the Government of Lithuania a formal protest against the acceptance by that Government of any territory ceded by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which does not belong to the said Union.
Accept [etc.]
Jerzy Potocki