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408           FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19 4 6, VOLUME VI

ation in secondary category was because of desire last summer and
autumn to stress recuperation of industry for purpose of enlisting
political support of Govt by workers.
  Bentinck 76 informs me that he is telegraphing Bevin recommending
in case joint statement is made by two Govts that no reference be
made to our disapproval of single list. He informs me that Foreign
Office considers that a statement disapproving single list might lead
to an embarrassing situation after election if single list were adopted.
Following my conversation with Mikolajczyk, however, I am con-
vinced that he has no intention of adhering to single liSt.77
  Sent to Dept as 247, repeated London 37, Moscow 14 of Feb 26.

                                                               LANE

  [Ambassador Lane gave an appraisal of the political situation in
Poland in a letter of March 1, 1946, to H. Freeman Matthews, Director
of the Office of European Affairs; for text of letter, see Lane, I Sate
Poland Betrayed, page 193.]

860C.24/3-846: Telegram
     The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Poland (Lane)

SECRET                         WASHINGTON, March 8, 1946-2 p. i.
  168. Urtel 261, March 1, paragraph 4.78    For your information
Dept desires to clarify that line of credit of $50 million for purchase of
surplus property now under discussion and possible Eximbank loan
to Poland of $50 million are unrelated questions. Surplus property
purchase arrangement is not a &quot;loan&quot; and should not be related
to any
prospective Eximbank loan to Poland. Also surplus purchase ar-
rangement does not represent a commitment by the US that surplus
property in amount of $50 million can be made available to Poland.
Arrangement simply means that if surplus property wanted by Poland
is available and if detailed agreement on conditions can be reached,

76 Victor Cavendish-Bentinek, British Ambassador in Poland.
&quot; Telegram 131, February 27, to Warsaw, requested Ambassador Lane to
obtain
Mikolajezyk's views regarding a possible Anglo-American statement opposing
a
single electoral list in the Polish elections (860C.00/2-2746). In telegram
260,
March 1, from Warsaw, Ambassador Lane expressed the view that it would be
preferable to make no statement unless Mikolajczyk and his party were excluded
from the Government (860C.00/3-146).
  '8 Not printed; this telegram reported an unofficial and private discussion
which Ambassador Lane had with an unnamed Polish Government official on
February 27 regarding the possibility of compensation for American properties
affected by Polish nationalization decrees. Paragraph 4 of the telegram stated
that the Polish official had urged Lane to recommend a credit of $100 million
to Poland, the greater part of which would be in surplus war supplies.
(660C.6131/3-146)


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