The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-13

guilty but said that the Soviet Union could not countenance any group which came to Moscow in good faith" bringing with them a secret radio which was being used to transmit messages to London or any other place especially when ample British and American trans mission facilities were available in Moscow if the Poles did not trust the Russians.
 Stalin also pointed out the group had been caught red-handed send ing other than diplomatic messages oyer the radio and that the arrest of the entire group had followed. Hopkins Gains His Point Hopkins pressed the point that 1t was unfair to punish all the men for the sins of a few. Finally Sta lin agreed that all would not be tried and that some were to be re- leased. Hopkins pointed out that the press and radio in the U. s. were waging tremendous political warfare on the Russians and that this made any pro-Soviet foreign policy extremely difficult to carry out. Marshal Stalin agreed that the situation was quite bad in the U. S., and in Britain as well.
 However, he stubbornly maintain ed that the reason behind the cam paign was that big interests in the U. s. hate Russia and will attack her on any pretense. Stalin said in the absence of pretenSes, the anti Soviet bloc in America and Britain always managed to find new fiction al issues to attack on.
 Stalin did agree it was high time the Russians made some gesture to- ward the United States However, he asked that release of the Poles not be made a condition to resump- ton of negotiations on the Polish issue
 Gets Pres. Truman's o. K.
 Hopkins and Averell Hartman, U. s. ambassador to Moscow, agreed with Stalin and promised to use their influence with Churchill and Truman to obtain approval of this tentative procedure. Truman readily agreed, and the next night Hopkins and Stalin went into session again.
 Hopkins then proposed that ex- premier Mikolajczyk be brought to Moscow and sit in on the negotia- tions. Also he proposed that Mikol- ajczyk be asked to submit a group of Poles who were to be added to the Lublin regime Stalin said this was consistent with the way in which he and President Roosevelt understood the Yalta agreement, namely enlarging the present War saw government, using the original Lublin group as its base. He approv- ed this proposal and gave Hopkins a list of acceptable Poles. These were reported to MikolajcZyk who worked over the list in cooperation with some of his British government friends
 Churchill Also Included
 Finally Hopkins agreed to send a personal message to Prime Minister Churchill asking that he, too. ap- prove the entire formula worked out by himself and Stalin, including the fact that this agreement not be made conditional on the release of the 16 Poles. Hopkins told the state department and Churchill that Stalin had promised to give their release serious consideration and that he, Hopkins was confident this would be done.
 Under the Hopkins formula, con- sultations will be started in Moscow immediately among the Poles them selves with Mikolajczyk speaking for the group outside Poland and the Lublin- Warsaw group being repre- sented by President Bierut, head of the Lublin organization. The big three will watch over the meetings, but will do no negotiating on behalf of the Poles.
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