Many thanks for your Secret letter of the 26th May¹ about your conversation with Cardinal Sapieha.

You may take it as quite definite that there is no prospect of our recognising the new régime in Poland in the immediate future. Whatever consideration the Government may have been prepared to give to the question before - and our coal shortage and our candidature for UNO were the only arguments in favour of recognition - recent events have put the question out of court completely, for the moment at any rate. Needless to say, if the step were ever being considered, you would be the first person whom we would inform before anything were done.

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