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;