860C.01/6–1545: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 15—6:30 p.m.]
6089. Poles 68, June 15, 1 p.m.14 Warner14a has just told us that F O is in sympathy with Mikolajczyk’s view that the holding of the trials at the very time consultations are to be held would create an “unwelcome atmosphere”. Warner added that F O had under consideration a message to Clark Kerr on the subject. Whether the message in its final form would go beyond asking Clark Kerr to try to get further details about the trials, he could not say. In any event the message when despatched would be repeated to the Brit Emb at Wash.
Warner also told us that the News Dept of the F O had been directed to reply to inquiries regarding the change in Mik’s travel plans, that the delay in Mik’s departure was due to an “unexpected development”, this “unexpected development” being Witos’ inability, because of ill health as orally explained by him to the Russians, to go to Moscow.
Sent Dept as 6089; rptd Moscow as 205.
- Not printed; it reported that Mikolajczyk had informed the British Foreign Office of his worry and apprehension concerning a Soviet announcement indicating that the trial of the 16 arrested Polish leaders would coincide with the Moscow consultations of Polish leaders with the Tripartite Commission on Poland (860C.01/6–1545). Radio Moscow had announced on June 14 that the investigation of the arrested Polish leaders had been completed and that they would soon be tried by the Soviet Supreme Military Court.↩
- Christopher F. A. Warner, head of the Northern Department of the British Foreign Office.↩