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PREM19/559
Poland (Internal situation; economic assistance to Poland) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 225
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81 Jan 16 Fr Major Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Call by the Polish Ambassador") [Polish Ambassador calls on FCO: "He said that for the first time since the crisis began he would describe the general situation as dangerous"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 21 We Major Poland: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Economic Assistance to Poland") [report of meeting with visiting Polish delegation] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 23 Fr Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") [report on Solidarity strikes] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 26 Mo Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Strikes") ["I...think that the chances of a clash involving Polish force and of Soviet intervention have increased"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 27 Tu Major Poland: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Poland") ["I agree with HM Ambassador Warsaw that the risk of Soviet military intervention has increased"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 29 Th Major Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Poland") [Polish Ambassador calls on FCO: "He described the internal scene as unpredictable"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 30 Fr Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (internal situation: Polish Government response to strikes by Solidarity) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") ["The measure of agreement reached between the Government and Solidarity is much more a victory for the latter than the former"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 4 We Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") ["Kania's speech to the Pre-Congress Commission has been accorded far less publicity than that of Olszowski"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Poland") ["the slide to anarchy in Poland is reaching such a point that the Soviet Union may find it impossible not to intervene"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 11 We Major Poland: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Longer-Term Economic Assistance to Poland (OD(81) 7)") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 12 Th Major Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Poland") [call by Polish Ambassador on FCO: "He said that [Polish Foreign Minister] Czyrek believed that Poland had now entered the stage of anarchisation"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO ("Polish Situation") ["It seems likely that there will now be a lull in the crisis or at least a honeymoon period for the new government"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We Major Poland: FCO to UKE Warsaw ("Call on Polish Prime Minister") [messages for UK Ambassador to Warsaw to deliver to Prime Minister Jaruzelski of Poland] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 19 Th Major Poland: UKE Warsaw to FCO (UK Ambassador's meeting with General Jaruzelski, Prime Minister of Poland) [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 19 Th Major Poland: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Poland: Possible Economic Sanctions") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 27 Fr Major Poland: Prime Minister Jaruzelski of Poland message to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on becoming Prime Minister) [declassified 2011]