that the Polish Government might be reluctant to agree to 
      make public such counter-assurances as they would have given 
      us but His Majesty's Government would certainly be pressed to 
      say whether any such counter-assurance had been given and they 
      would very much hope to be in a position to announce the fact.
 
      
 
 
Your French colleague will receive similar instructions and 
      you should after consulting him speak to the Minister for Foreign 
      Affairs in the sense of the present telegram.