SUMMARY
 
     SUGGESTED UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING POLAND
 
           With regard to Poland, we should continue to maintain 
our announced policy which has for  its objective the even-
tual establishment by the Polish people of a truly demo-
cratic government of their own choice. In the attainment 
of this end, we would endeavor to prevent any interim
regime from being established which would exclude any 
major element of the population and threaten to crystallize 
into a permanent government before the will of the popula-
tion could become manifest. In pursuance of this policy, 
we should not recognize the Provisional Government of 
Lublin, at least until more conclusive evidence re-
ceived that it does in fact represent the basic wishes of 
the Polish people. With the same objective in view, we 
should use our full influence to see that the Polish Peas-
ant Party, the largest in the country, and its leader,
Mikolajczyk, are given an opportunity to take a leading 
role in any interim arrangements which may be made pending 
full liberation and free elections.  In order that the 
eventual elections, may achieve the objective we seek, we 
should sponsor United Nations arrangements for their
supervision.
 
               With respect to the Polish frontier, we should use 
our influence to obtain a solution of this problem which 
could minimize future points of friction, possible irre-
dentism and the number of minority groups which would have 
to be transferred as part of the settlement in order 
that the solution would contribute to the fullest possible 
extent to the peace and future tranquility of Europe.  In 
pursuance of this objective, we should support a frontier 
settlement which in the east would take the Curzon Line as 
a basis but would, if possible, include the Province of  
Lwow in Poland in order that this predominantly Polish 
city and the economically important oil fields to the
southwest would remain within the frontiers of the Polish 
state. In the north, Poland should receive the bulk of 
East Prussia and, in the west, the only changes in the 
1939 frontier we should support should be the inclusion 
of a small strip of Pomerania west of the so-called Polish 
Corridor Upper Silesia. We should resist the exag-
gerated claims now being advanced by the Provisional
Government of Lublin for "compensation" from Germany 
which would include the cities of Stettin and Breslau in 
Poland and make necessary the transfer of from eight to 
ten million Germans.  In connection with the frontier 
settlement, we should, in so far as practicable and in
collaboration with the other United Nations, be prepared 
to assist in the orderly transfer of minority groups pro-
vided the Polish Government so desires.