740.00111A Recruiting/31: Telegram
The Ambassador to Poland (Biddle), Then in France, to the Secretary of State
[Received October 7—11:45 a.m.]
3. 1. Your number 1136, October 2, 1939, 9 p.m. Minister Zaleski59 expressed his deep regret that General Sikorsky’s statement had created an unfavorable impression in the United States. Zaleski assured me (a) he was familiar with the provisions of the President’s proclamation of neutrality relating to the enlistment of our soldiers and marines and (b) that when General Sikorsky made aforementioned statement he had in mind only those Poles who might not yet have acquired full American citizenship, a status similar to that of many Poles now in France.
2. I am aware moreover that since date of Sikorsky’s aforementioned statement the new Polish Government has assumed more definite form a fact which will henceforth afford Government officials the benefit of consultation on all aspects of envisaged public utterances previous to their issuance.
- August Zaleski, Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩