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Ref,  flo,:      3/NBF/T2396 

Issued      :    S       Jr^lM 
Copy  No, :  3oi 

BENES'S  VISIT  TO  MOSCOW  AND  SUBSBQUBIT  STABWUTS: 
REPORT  FROW  "ZAYrTo" 


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To  the  8th  Depcrtnent* 

rrZAY*Tsrp[i]  report*: 

Ambrssedor  VIHAlR£ii]  informed  the  "BAMP'Ciii]  that,   according  to 
inforaction  froa  the  Acting  [2  groups  unrecovered]  RIPKA  Civ].  BDQSM 
vra  satisfied  with  hie  trip  to  MOSCOW  -nd  with  the  attitude  to  the 
European  question  expressed  by  the  Soviet  government*     RIFKA  told  thev 
First  Secretary  of  the  COUNTRY  [STRANA][vi]  SCaDUQTEUHIvii]  that  BOTES. 
in  &  conversation  with  MIKOLAJCZYX[viii] ,    steted.      The   USSR  is  not 
r g#in*t  the  renewrl  of  relatione  with  POLAND,  does  not  west  a  Cooouniet 
POUND  end  does  not  dearoid  the  19*1  bound? rite.     It  doee  want  the 
recognition  of  the  CURZCW  line  with  acme  rmendaente  (the  Poles  will  have 
the  ares  of  EEL05T0K,  the  :«■  near  LQMZA  and  emtszn  GALICIA  including 
PRZBfYSL.     The  USSR  insiete  on  keeping  in  its  own  hands  LVOV  [3  groups 
unrecorered]  hand-OTer  to  POIANO  of  territory  in  the  west  right  up  to 
the  OLD  if  the  ISLAND  tOSTR0V][ix],    the  COUNTRY  end  CZECHOSLOVAKIA 
[6  groups  unxecorered]  the  USSR  demands  changes  in  the  composition  of 
the  Poliefa  Cabinet  and  the  reaowl  of  SOSNKOWSKI[i]  5   considers 


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illKOLAJCZTK  cce«pt-ble;   daernda 

[26  groupa  unracovered] 

collaboration  of  tha  COONTRT  ™d   tha   ISLAND.     In  BBQS<«  opinion  thia 
attitude  has  bean  diet- ted  not  by  teBporj»ry 

Cl02  graupa  unrecoverable] 


Footnotea:  [i]   ZAYr To:      i.a.  "HARE";   tteurioe  HALreRlN. 

[ii]  WHAMT:     John  Gilbert  VINANT,  U.S.  Anbaaaador  to 
GREAT  BRITAIN, 

[iii]  BAKKj     U.S.  SUtt  DaprrtBtnt. 

Civ]  RIFKA;     Rubart  RIFKA t  Deputy/Acting  Hiniatar  of 
Foreign  Affairs  in  the  CzacboaloraJc 
Government   in  Exila   In  LONDON. 

[v]  BENES;      Presidant  Edvard  BENE5  of  CZECHOSLOVAKIA; 
viaitad  tha  USSR  in  Dacenber.  I?*? 

[vi]  OOQNTRY;     ma  U.S. A* 

Oii]  SCBDENFELD:      Rudolf  Boil  SCBOENFELD,   Aaieriean 

Hiniatar  to  aavar&l  Govamaanta  in  Exila 
in  LONDON,  including  that  of 
CZECHOSLOVAKIA. 

[viiij  MttDLAJCZTtKi     Stcnial»w  NIKOLAJCZ1K,  Priae  Hiniatar  of 

tha  Polish  Ooranuant  in  LONDON. 

Cix]  Iha   ISLAND:     GREAT  BRITAIN. 

Cx]   SQSNKOVSKI;      General  Kazimiarz  SOSHKOWSXI, 

Coflusinder- in-Chief  Pollen  Amed  Forcee. 


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