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asked, "Then I may assure Mr. Byrnes that treaties will be furnished
us next week?" Modzelewski replied in the affirmative.
  2. I said that Modzelewski's note 46 in reply to our memo of April 19
re date of elections 47 did not refer to our suggestion that pertinent
portion of Potsdam Decision re Polish elections [apparent omission].
Modzelewski replied, as in his note, that Osubka-Morawski's speech
before KRN covered this. I said that Premier's speech was not as
specific as we would have liked. I said that we had presumed that
notes recently exchanged in Washington following credit negotia-
tions would have been published before now and would therefore have
satisfied the suggestion made in my memo of April 19. I said that
conditions agreed upon had not been published in Polish press despite
agreement to this effect. Modzelewski said that release to press by
Under Secretary Acheson contained observations which had not been
previously agreed upon between Lange and Dept. He said that he
had no objections to Dept's conmnents but the fact was that these ob-
servations came as a surprise to Lange. He said that Polish Govt had
not published text of notes exchanged because it had not yet received
them from Lange. I inquired whether Lange had addressed notes on
such important matter without authorization of his govt. Modze-
lewski replied that Lange had been entirely correct in obtaining au-
thorization from his govt which had in fact been confirmed by
President Bierut but that actual text of notes had not been received.
I expressed failure to understand that Lange would have addressed
notes without receiving detailed textual authorization. Modzelew-
ski's comment was, "We will publish them when received."
  3. I delivered a first person note, date May 3, copy of which will be
transmitted to Dept by despatch. (Deptel 372, April 30, mytel 624,
May 1 and Dept's reply to latter message 48). Modzelewski made sur-
prising statement that there is no censorship of any messages sent by
foreign correspondents in Poland. He said that in his opinion some
employee in telegraph office in order to make trouble between us and
Poland may have failed to transmit press despatches on Banczyk's
speech but the fact that speech was published in Polish press (so far
as I know only in Gazeta Ludowa) there was no reason why Govt
would object to transmission abroad. He said that Polish Govt

  '"For text of Acting Foreign Minister Modzelewski's note of April
29, see
footnote 21, p. 431.
  4 Ambassador Lane's memorandum to the Polish Foreign Ministry dated
April 19 not printed, but see telegram 550, April 19, from Warsaw, p. 429.
  4" None printed; these messages were concerned with the representations
Ambassador Lane was to make to the Polish Government requesting that
American correspondents be permitted immediately to send Banczyk's speech
in
full by wire to the United States and that no further obstacles be placed
to their
reporting freely on all developments in Poland (860C.00/4-2846 and 860C.-
00/5-146).



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