1988 Mar 29 - 1988 Oct 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2385
Poland (Prime Minister's visit to Poland, November 1988) (Part 1)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2016 Jul 21 |
| Classification: | Secret - Cab One |
| Page count: | 293 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date |
Value |
Title |
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| 88 Jul 14 Th | Key | Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["I want my visit to mark a step forward... I am convinced that a brief visit to Gdansk would capture the imagination of literally millions of people"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Major | Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [management training assistance] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 28 Fr | Major | Poland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Visit to Poland") ["a cynical and intellectually bankrupt regime which knows it has no popular support"; "Our aim is that, as was the case with your visit to the Soviet Union, Poland should never be quite the same place again... Your visit comes at a very difficult juncture in Poland's affairs"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Major | Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [press coverage in advance of visit, including Jaruzelski interview] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Major | Poland: UK Ambassador to Holy See record of conversation ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [John Broadley, Archbishop Colassuono: MT message to Pope, and Vatican response] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Sep 22 Th | Major | Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: UK economic and financial policy”) [“present situation in Poland does not justify substantial… support”] [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Sep 29 Th | Major | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Lord Bethell, Janusz Onyszkiewicz) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Jul 25 Mo | Major | Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [possible MT visit to Gdansk - information on Polish government views from Guardian journalist [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Jun 26 Su | Major | Poland: Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board letter to MT ("Poland") ["the Poles.. would like to see... trade progress during your visit"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 26 We | Major | Poland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [MT meeting with Ambassador Gertych in advance of visit] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 26 We | Major | Poland: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with The Polish Ambassador”) ["courteous and old-fashioned … extremely difficult to understand a word he says"] declassified 2016] |
| 88 Oct 17 Mo | Major | Powell minute for MT (draft of written interview for Polityka) [Polish magazine] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 26 We | Major | Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: consultation with the Pope”) [declassified 2016] |
| 88 Oct 27 Th | Major | Poland: Lord Bethell PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988) [sensitivities regarding discussion of WWII; Poland to participate for first time in Remembrance Day parade] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Sep 25 Su | Major | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Maxwell) ["Prime Minister's visit to Poland": Maxwell's account of meeting with Jaruzelski - "the West had as good as won the Cold War... [MT] visit could "not come at a more propitious time""] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Sep 1 Th | Major | Poland: Baroness Cox letter to MT (religious education in schools & visit to Poland) ["appalling shortages of medicines and medical equipment"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Sep 29 Th | Major | Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Poland: Prime Minister's visit: meeting with Church") [MT to meet with Bishop Dabrowski in Cardinal Glemp's absence, but hopeful that Glemp will still be available for revised date] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Major | Poland: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) [relations between western Europe and East Europe] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 27 Th | Major | Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Gertych) [forthcoming visit to Poland; MT's "highest priority... to meet as many people as possible"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
| 88 Oct 31 Mo | Major | Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [closure of Lenin shipyard] [declassified Jul 2016] |