U.S. Delegation Memorandum
Yalta, February 10, 1945
Items Still Before the Foreign Ministers
Poland
There is probably no reason to discuss this until the plenary meeting.
Declaration of Liberated Europe
Same status as Number 1.
Iran
The British may propose adoption of their paper – Mr. Matthews has a copy of it.
Reparations
The British have not yet agreed to Soviet-American paper. The British or Russians may want to bring this up.
Mr. Eden Wants
(a) To have the provisions relating to the Hungarian Control Commission apply also in Bulgaria;
(b) To get an agreement for Bulgarian reparations to Greece;
(c) To express opposition to Russian proposal favoring an alliance between Tito and Bulgaria.
U.S. Delegation Memorandum On The Polish Government
Yalta, February 10, 1945
Text of Formula on Poland So Far Agreed by the Three Foreign Ministers
A new situation has been created by the complete liberation of Poland by the Red Army. This calls for the establishment of a provisional Polish government more broadly based than was possible before the recent liberation of western Poland. The provisional government now functioning in Poland should be reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from those living abroad. This new government will then be called the “Polish Provisional Government of National Unity.” Mr. Molotov, Mr. Harriman, and Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, are authorized to consult in the first instance in Moscow with members of the present provisional government and with other democratic leaders from within Poland and from abroad with a view to the reorganization of the present government along the above lines. This “Polish Provisional Government of National Unity” would be pledged to the holding of free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot. In these elections all democratic and anti-Nazi parties would have the right to take part and to put forth candidates.
When a “Polish Provisional Government of National Unity” has been properly formed in conformity with the above, the three governments will then accord it recognition.
In lieu of the following sentence: “When a ‘Polish Provisional Government of National Unity’ has been properly formed in conformity with the above, the three governments will then accord it recognition.” Mr. Molotov suggests the following rewording:
When a “Polish Provisional Government of National Unity” has been properly formed in conformity with the above, the Governments of the United States and of Great Britain will establish diplomatic relations with it as has been done by the Soviet Union.
This sentence was not accepted by Mr. Stettinius or Mr. Eden.
He said he would bring it up again at the four o’clock meeting this afternoon.
The British still advocate inclusion of the following sentence:
The ambassadors of the three powers in Warsaw, following such recognition, would be charged with the responsibility of observing and reporting to their respective governments on the carrying out of the pledge in regard to free and unfettered elections.
U.S. Delegation Memorandum on the Soviet Proposal for the Final Paragraph of the Formula on Poland
Yalta, February 10, 1945
Mr. Molotov’s latest draft proposal for the end of the last sentence of the Polish formula:
… the Government of the USSR, which now maintains diplomatic relations with the present Provisional Government of Poland and the Governments of Great Britain and the United States will establish diplomatic relations with the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity. and will exchange Ambas. by whose reports the respect. Govts. will be kept informed about the situation in Poland.