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Text of a telegram received from the Foreign Office on April 
      30th.
 
      
 
 
Prime Minister agrees to make following changes in his message 
      to Stalin.
 
      
 
 
Message should begin as follows:-
 
      
 
 
I cannot refrain from expressing my disappointment that you 
      should have felt it necessary to take action in breaking off 
      relations with Poles without giving me time to inform you of 
      results of my approach to General Sikorski about which I had 
      telegraphed to you on April 24. I had hoped, in spirit of our 
      treaty of last year, we should always consult each other about 
      such important matters, more especially as they affect combined 
      strength of United Nations.
 
      
 
 
Original paragraphs 1 and 2 should then follow as paragraphs 
      2 and 3.
 
      
 
 
First sentence of original paragraph 3 (now paragraph 4) stands. 
      This paragraph should continue as follows: "He is now busy 
      suggesting that U.S.S.R. will set up a Polish Government on Russian 
      soil and deal only with [? President!. We shall not of course 
      be able to recognize etc."
 
      
 
 
Original paragraphs 4 and 5 should then follow as new paragraphs 
      5 and 6.
 
      
 
 
Prime Minister thinks it necessary to maintain his references 
      to Poles in Soviet Union for following reasons: -
 
      
 
 
(a) one of our main objects has been to shift argument from 
      past to future and to concentrate attention upon the living rather 
      than the dead; 
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