DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                       ASSISTANT SECRETARY                  
 
                           July 8, 1941                     
 
                                                            
 
 
                MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT                 
 
                        Peace Commitments                   
 
                                                            
 
 
1. An alleged British commitment to cede the Italian port 
      of Trieste to a reconstituted Yugoslavia. (Reported by AP: statement 
      of General Dusan: Simovich, Premier of the Yugoslav government 
      in exile.) General Simovich likewise said that both Britain and 
      the United States had given a written declaration that all attempts 
      to dismember Yugoslavia would be considered invalid, null and 
                              void.                         
 
                                                            
 
 
2. Negotiations now pending in London between the Soviet Government 
      and General Sikorski, representing the Polish Government, carried 
      on through the medium of Anthony Eden. The Soviet Government 
      proposes to constitute national committees for the three nations 
      of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, these to be created 
                 from nationals now apparently on           
 
      Russian soil. Boundaries are to be left for further consideration. 
      The Russians propose that each of these