Memorandum by the Secretary of State to President Roosevelt 50

I wish to refer to telegram no. 9050 of December 2951 from Ambassador Winant which reads in part as follows:

“The Department will be familiar with the Soviet accusations against the Polish resistance groups in Poland which were lodged at Teheran to the effect that these resistance groups were actually cooperating with the Germans in that they were fighting the so-called partisans which were really Russians dropped by parachute.”

It would be helpful to me and to the senior members of the Department who are handling Soviet-Polish matters if the pertinent sections of the report on the Tehran Conference52 with regard to the aforementioned Soviet accusations might be made available to the Department.

C[ordell] H[ull]
  1. Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
  2. Not printed.
  3. The conference at Tehran was held between November 28 and December 1, 1943, and was attended by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin, with their advisers. For the record concerning the accusations here referred to, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, p. 596.