500.CC/4–1745
The Department of State to the Embassy of the Soviet Union
Memorandum
In referring to the proposal repeated in the Soviet Embassy’s memorandum of April 17, 1945 that the Provisional Polish Government now functioning in Warsaw be invited to send representatives to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, the United States Government is compelled to state that its position in this matter, as already set forth in a memorandum to the Embassy dated March 29, 1945, is unchanged and that it cannot agree to the extension of such an invitation.85 While the importance of participation in the Conference by Poland, the first United Nation to undergo Nazi attack in 1939, is fully realized, it remains the firm [Page 380] opinion of the Government of the United States that representation by Poland at San Francisco should be reserved for the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity agreed upon at the Crimea Conference.