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1988 Nov 1 - 1988 Dec 17
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2386
Poland (Prime Minister's visit to Poland, November 1988) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 163
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88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cardinal Józef Glemp) [political developments in Poland & the role of Polish Church] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: Thorpe minute to Ambassador (“Prime Minister’s visit: meeting with Walesa”) [contigency plans for meeting in the event of shipyard strike] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: Thorpe minute to Ambassador (“Lenin Shipyard: no strike situation”) [workforce returned to work after rally addressed by Walesa] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: Solidarity Gdansk shipyard workers letter to MT (visit to the Lenin Yard) [welcome; "We require cancellation of the Yalta Agreement"] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tu Major Poland: No.10 minute to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [assistance given to redundant mineworkers, steelworkers and shipbuilders in UK - bull points & detail] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tu Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk”) [not the weakest yard economically, implying closure decision was political] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tu Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: possible trouble in Gdansk”) [contingency thinking] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tu Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit: closure of Lenin Shipyard”) [announcement timed to put PM on the spot; MT drafts response] [declassified 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Polish Independents) [economic reform in Poland, anti-communism, political situation] [declassified 2016]
88 Dec 16 Fr Major Poland: General Jaruzelski letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) ["I highly value your invitation to continue the talks which we so promisingly opened in Warsaw"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 16 Fr Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War") [proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 6 Tu Major Poland: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Poland") ["figures for total British killed in World War II": inaccurate statistics cited by MT during dinner speech in Warsaw] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 5 Mo Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: remains of General Sikorski") [MT statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Dec 5 Mo Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: follow-up") [proposals and scheduled undertakings] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 11 Fr Major Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) [encloses copy of statement to Parliament on outcome of the visit] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 11 Fr Major Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [MT statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 10 Th Major Poland: MT letter to Pope John Paul II (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) ["I returned from Poland convinced that Solidarity is a force that cannot be denied"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 9 We Major Poland: Chairman of the British Council letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) ["Your visit has raised morale enormously"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 8 Tu Major Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (work of the Christian Samaritan Foundation) [information submitted by Roger Maggs] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Nov 7 Mo Major Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit: general impressions") [declassified Jul 2016]