860C.51/6–2546
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs (Thompson)
| Participants: | Dr. Stefan Litauer, Minister Counselor of the Polish Embassy; |
| Mr. Janusz Zoltowski, Financial Counselor of the Polish Embassy; | |
| Mr. L. E. Thompson, Chief, Division of Eastern European Affairs; and | |
| Mr. C. Burke Elbrick, Assistant Chief, Division of Eastern European Affairs. |
Dr. Litauer and Mr. Zoltowski called at the Department at my request and were informed that this Government considered the assurances given to Ambassador Lane by Prime Minister Osubka-Morawski on June 14, regarding the furnishing of Poland’s treaty texts, to be satisfactory.72 Accordingly, the Department is authorizing the resumption of deliveries of surplus property to Poland, and Ambassador Lane has been instructed to inform the Polish Government. The hope was expressed to the Polish Representatives that the information promised by Prime Minister Osubka-Morawski, including confidential information regarding quantities and prices, would be made available shortly.
In reply to their question, Dr. Litauer and Mr. Zoltowski were informed that this Government’s position with regard to the implementation of both the surplus property credit and the Export-Import Bank Credit had not changed since their conference with Mr. Acheson on May 23. In other words, while the Department is willing to proceed with the deliveries of surplus property to Poland, following the Prime Minister’s assurances, the Export-Import Bank credit contract is not to be signed until the information promised by the Polish Government actually received.
Dr. Litauer said that the account of the Prime Minister’s assurances to Ambassador Lane, which had been received by the Polish Embassy here, was rather vague and he was not sure that the Polish Government would be able to supply all of the confidential information regarding prices and quantities concurrently with the publication of the treaty [Page 467] texts. He said, for example, that certain of the information might be forthcoming immediately, but that it might not be possible to furnish the remainder until some later date. I repeated to both gentlemen that the American position had not changed and that this Government expected to receive all of the information in question before proceeding to the implementation of the Export-Import Bank credit. It was pointed out to them that Prime Minister Osubka-Morawski’s assurances to Ambassador Lane indicated to us that the texts of the treaties and the confidential information regarding prices and quantities would be delivered to us more or less simultaneously. The hope was expressed that this matter could be clarified shortly in Warsaw.