Paris, March 9, 1940.
 
     I called upon General Sikorski and upon M. Zaleski,
 
She Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the recently
 
constituted Polish Government.
 
     General Sikorski impressed me as a man of character,
 
of integrity, and of patriotism, but as being without any
 
particular intellectual ability. His conversation was
 
devoted entirely to an account of the recent atrocities
 
committed in Poland by the Germans, and to the emphatic 
 
expression of his belief that if Poland had mobilized 
 
last August forty-eight hours before she actually did,
 
Germany would never have been able to be victorious.
 
     M. Zaleski handed me a written memorandum contain-
 
lng his views as to the present European situation and
 
as to the situation of the Polish people. There was
 
nothing really significant in my conversation with him.
 
I  inquired about the report I had received to the effect
 
that Colonel Beck had reached a detailed agreement with
 
Hitler at Berchtesgaden in January 1939, covering the
 
restoration of Danzig to Germany, and the granting of
 
extraterritorial communications to Germany between Greater
 
Germany and Eastern Prussia. M. Zaleski assured me that
 
no such detailed agreement had ever been reached, but that
 
it as true that when Beck's interview with Hitler at that
 
time terminated, Beck had said to Hitler that he believed
 
the solution of this problem would not create any real
 
difficulty between the Polish and German Governments.
 
     M. Zaleski seemed profoundly pessimistic with regard
 
to the present situation in Europe, and appeared to share
 
none of General Sikorski's optimism as to the eventual
 
victory of the Allied armies.