Office of the Historian

760C.61/2346

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State

[Washington,] June 6, 1944.

The Soviet Ambassador12 called upon me at my request this morning at 11:30. I explained to him the nature of the Polish Prime Minister’s visit to Washington,13 the general conversations that we were having and that no new proposals were contemplated by this Government relative to solving the Soviet-Polish difficulties.

The Ambassador appeared to be thoroughly satisfied with my statement and asked whether or not the Polish Prime Minister would be making any statements. I explained it was my belief that he came [Page 1274] with the understanding that he was not to make any speeches and then the Ambassador asked whether or not any joint communiqué would be issued at the close of the conferences. I assured him that a joint communiqué would not be issued but that I, of course, could not guarantee that the Polish Prime Minister himself would not make a statement to the press some time while he was in the country.

E[dward] S[tettinius]
  1. Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko.↩
  2. Prime Minister Mikolajczyk arrived in Washington about noon on June 5 and was scheduled to see President Roosevelt on June 7.↩