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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret - Cab One
Page count: 293
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88 Jul 14 Thu 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 26 Wed 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 Wed 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 Mon Powell minute for MT (draft of written interview for Polityka) [Polish magazine] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 20 Tue Poland: No.10 note for file (Robert Maxwell meeting with General Jaruzelski: points to make) [passed on orally] [declassified 2016]
88 Aug 4 Thu Poland: General Jaruzelski letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [agrees she visit Gdansk; joint wreathlaying at Westerplatte] [declassified 2016]
88 Jul 25 Mon 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 Oct 31 Mon Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [management training] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2628 to FCO (2330Z) (“US/Poland”) [‘political reform remains an essential ingredient for economic progress and hence for Western alliance’] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Poland: No.10 minute to MT (“Visit to Poland”) [British media reports] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 26 Wed Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: consultation with the Pope”) [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 22 Thu 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 Thu Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Lord Bethell, Janusz Onyszkiewicz) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 5 Mon Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [programme] [declassified 2016]
88 Aug 30 Tue Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [programme] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 29 Tue Poland: Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [copy of his lecture on postwar Polish history] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Poland: Fighting Solidarity letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) [petition for the release of political prisoners] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Closure of Lenin Shipyard") ["Statement by Walesa emphasises political nature of closure of Solidarity's birthplace. No call for strikes"; MT comments on draft press line for UK govt response] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2628 to FCO (2330Z) ("US/Poland") [US "shared some of Solidarity's concern that Rakowski may be intending to back away from the round-table process and to develop and economic plan that might be attractive to some of the Europeans"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [press coverage in advance of visit, including Jaruzelski interview] [declassified Jul 2016]