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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 Oct 20 Th Minor Poland: Chairman of the British Council letter to MT (British Council aims & activities in Poland) [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 20 Tu Minor Poland: FCO Eastern European Department minute to Howe PS (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [No.10 confused by Polish Ambassador request for meeting already confirmed, and FCO notes that he appears to distrust his own staff] [declassified 2016]
88 Oct 4 Tu Minor Poland: Fowler PS briefing to Howe PS (small firms) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 14 We Minor Poland: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [benefits of a small firms sector] [declassified 2016]
88 Aug 4 Th Major Poland: General Jaruzelski letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [agrees she visit Gdansk; joint wreathlaying at Westerplatte] [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 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]
88 Oct 31 Mo Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [management training] [declassified 2016]
88 Aug 12 Fr Minor Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [opening of the British Council new cinema and exhibition hall] [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 5 Mo Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [programme] [declassified 2016]
88 Aug 10 We Minor Poland: Nicholas Bethell letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [suggestions for Gdansk itinerary] [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 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 Oct 31 Mo Major Poland: No.10 minute to MT (“Visit to Poland”) [British media reports] [declassified 2016]
88 Sep 20 Tu Major Poland: No.10 note for file (Robert Maxwell meeting with General Jaruzelski: points to make) [passed on orally] [declassified 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 Sep 21 We Minor Poland: Polish Ambassador letter to No.10 (meeting with the Prime Minister) [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 29 Tu Major 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 Aug 30 Tu Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [programme] [declassified 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]