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you will consider this matter in a spirit of magnanimity.
 
      
 
 
(2) Cabinet here is determined to have proper discipline in 
      the Polish press in Great Britain. Even miserable rags attacking 
      Sikorski can say things which the German broadcast repeats open-mouthed 
      to the world to our joint detriment. This must be stopped and 
      it will be stopped.
 
      
 
 
(3) So far this business has been Goebbels' greatest triumph. 
      It has now been suggested that the U.S.S.R. will set up a left 
      wing Polish Government on Russian soil and deal only with them. 
      We could not recognize such a Government and would continue our 
      relations with Sikorski who is far the most helpful man you or 
      we are likely to find for the purposes of the common cause. I 
      expect this will also be the American view.
 
      
 
 
(4) My own feeling is that they have had a shock and that 
      after whatever interval is thought convenient, the relationship 
      established on July 30th 1941 should be restored. No one will 
      hate this more than Hitler and what he hates most is wise for 
      us to do.
 
      
 
 
(5) We owe it to our armies now engaged and presently to be 
      more heavily engaged to maintain good conditions behind the fronts. 
      I and my colleagues look steadily to even closer cooperation 
      sand understanding of the U.S.S.R., the United States and British 
      Commonwealth and Empire, not only in the deepening war struggle 
      but after the war. What other hope can there be than this for 
      the tortured world?
 
      
 
 
Message ends.
 
      
 
 
3.Foreign Office are sending a fuller statement through our 
      Ambassador in Moscow setting out our formal and