APPENDIX PROPOSED INSTRUCTIONS FOR HIS MAJESTY' S AMBASSADOR AT WARSAW AND HIS MAJESTY'S MINISTER AT BUCHAREST. Enquiries in the various capitals concerned have shown that it will not be possible to proceed without modification with the proposed four-Power declaration. While the French Government have accepted the proposal and while the Soviet Government have accepted, subject to acceptance by France and Poland, the Polish Government are reluctant to associate themselves with the Soviet Union in a public declaration of this kind. It is becoming clear that our attempt to consolidate the situation will be frustrated if the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is openly associated with the initiation of the scheme. Recent reports from a number of His Majesty's Missions abroad have warned us that the inclusion of Russia would not only jeopardize the success of our constructive effort but would tend to consolidate the relations of the parties to the Anti-Comintern Pact as well as to excite anxiety amongst a number of friendly governments. Some alternative method of approach must therefore be sought. In any scheme the inclusion |