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At the recent conversations with the French Minister for Foreign 
      Affairs in London general agreement was reached between the French 
      Government and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom 
      as to the best course of action to adopt in view of the reluctance 
      of the Polish Government to accept the proposed four-Power declaration.
 
      
 
 
Instructions have accordingly been drafted for His Majesty's 
      Ambassador at Warsaw and His Majesty's Minister at Bucharest 
      prescribing the lines of an approach they are to make to the 
      Polish and the Rumanian Governments.
 
      
 
 
The purport of these instructions is given in an appendix 
      to the present message. The intention is that approach to the 
      Polish and Rumanian Governments should be made in similar terms 
      by the British and the French representatives at Warsaw and Bucharest. 
      The terms of these instructions have been submitted to the French 
      Government for their assent and if the French Government agree 
      the British and the French representatives at Warsaw and Bucharest 
      will be requested to act accordingly.
 
      
 
 
It has been pointed out to the French Government that the 
      Soviet Government while not associated directly with the proposed 
      arrangements would be kept in touch with developments and invited 
      to undertake to lend their assistance in certain circumstances 
      in the most convenient form; and His
 
      Majesty's