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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
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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 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 Sep 29 Th Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Lord Bethell, Janusz Onyszkiewicz) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 30 Fr Major Poland: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: UK economic and financial policy") ["any offer of financial support at this stage would be likely to weaken pressure on the Polish Government to strengthen its efforts at both political and economic reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 4 Tu Minor Poland: Fowler PS briefing to Howe PS (small firms) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 6 Th Major Poland: MT letter to Lord Jellicoe (UK industry ventures in Poland & economic aid) [MT: "Clearly my visit will be a chance to assess prospects for any improvement both in terms of economic performance and of political liberalisation, which I see as interlinked"; MT response to project proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 10 Mo Major Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [articles on Poland] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 17 Mo Major Powell minute for MT (draft of written interview for Polityka) [Polish magazine] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 18 Tu Major Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's interview with "Polityka"") [written answers] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 20 Th Minor Poland: Chairman of the British Council letter to MT (British Council aims & activities in Poland) [declassified 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 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [MT visit to Poland: - need to offer Poles something "on the economic front"] [declassified 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 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 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 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 27 Th Major Poland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988") [objectives; background] [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 28 Fr Major Poland: Baker minute to MT ("Your visit to Poland") [exchange proposals arising from his meeting with new Polish Minister for Education] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 28 Fr Minor Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: quotation from Shakespeare”) [“There is a tide in the affairs of men…”] [declassified 2016]