Eugenia Maresch - Katyn 1940

TNA FO 371/86679 NP 1661/6, confidential air courier despatch from the British Embassy in Washington enclosing Bliss Lane’s copies of letters and newspaper cuttings of two articles published in the New York Herald Tribune on 3 and 4 July 1949, written by Julius Epstein, a journalist who had served in the Office of War Information. ‘Murder of 10,000 Polish PoWs in Katyn Forest still unsolved – Germans and Russians accuse each other – Writer urges Inquiry into wartime slayings’; and ‘Soviet guilt for Katyn murders indicated by mass of evidence – Neutral enquiry under UN is urged to verify fate of thousands of Polish officers’.

TNA FO 371/100719 NP 1661/1, note dated 6 February 1952.

TNA FO 371/86679 NP1661/6 comments by FORD staff: A. F. Maddocks, D.S. Watson, J. Grant Purves, G.W. Shaw, on a despatch from the British Embassy in Washington dated 29 June 1950.

TNA FO 371/94780 NP 1661/3.

TNA FO 371/100719 N 1661/9 The Katyn Forest Massacre: Hearings before the Select Committee to conduct an investigation of the facts, evidence and circumstances of the Katyn Forest massacre , Part 2, 4, 7 February 1952, United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1952.

TNA FO 371 /100719 NP 1661/4, inward saving telegram No 324, 28th March 1952, annotated in red ink by Sir Anthony Eden.

TNA LCO 2/5172, note No. 5310, 3 April 1952.

TNA PREM 11/311 annex, draft of third person note to United States Ambassador regarding Katyn massacre, 7 April 1952.

TNA FO 371/97631 U 1661/13, inward saving telegram No 376 of 10 April 1952 from Ambassador Oliver Franks to the FO and Whitehall distribution.

Hearings before the Select Committee to conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre Eighty-Second Congress, Second Session on Investigation of the Murder of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia . Part 4, held in London, April 16–19 1952. Published in Washington 1952.

TNA FO 371/97632 U1661/22, 18 April 1952.

TNA LCO 2 /5172 AU 1661/23, confidential note No.507 by Robert Cecil, head of American Department FO to Sir Oliver Franks, British ambassador in Washington, dated 5 May 1952.

TNA FO 371/97632 U1661/22, briefs by R. Cecil, R. Barclay, Sir William Strang and Sir Anthony Eden, all April 1952.

TNA FO 371/97632 U 1661/25, WO (branch minutes) 1937 / MI 11 (L), 13 May 1952.

TNA FO 371/100719 NP 1661/11 and 12, notes on German war film on Katyn, from 25 April 1952.

TNA FO 371/ 100719 NP 1661/9, a copy of the report, part II on the Hearings in Washington of the Katyn Murders on 4–7 February 1952. Includes comments by N. Statham, T.S. Tull and Geoffrey W. Shaw.

TNA FO 371/100719, NP 1661/20 confidential despatch via air courier No. 535, dated 20 November 1952 from Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador in Washington, to Sir Anthony Eden, Secretary of State at the Foreign Office; and Statham’s views on Roosevelt’s administration.

Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb (1900–1996) entered Diplomatic Service in 1924, served in Tehran and Rome. Private Secretary to Permanent Under Secretary of State 1937–1940; onetime Private Secretary of Lord Cadogan and chief executive of SOE. Counsellor in the FO and in that capacity attended the Conferences of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam; Executive Secretary of Preparatory Commission of the United Nations 1945; Assistant Under Secretary of State and United Nations Adviser 1946–1947; Permanent Representative of the UK to the United Nations 1950–1954, GCMG; Ambassador to France 1954–1960.

TNA FO 371/100719 1662/17/52, 30 July 1952, NP 1661/15 28, 25 August 1952.

TNA FCO 28 / 714 B 334, The Katyn Wood Murders, 4-page typescript with footnotes, unsigned, [13] April 1956.

TNA FCO 28/1475 ENP 10/1, correspondence between R. Hankey, Soviet Section Research Department of the FO and Rohan Butler Library and Records Department, dated between 18 May and 18 November 1971.

TNA FCO 28/1945, ENP 10/1.

TNA FCO 28/1475, ENP 10/1, correspondences between 20 April and 17 May 1971; Katyn Dokumenty Ludobójstwa, Institute of Political Studies PAN, letter by Gromyko 12 April 1971.

Ibid.

Airey Neave, (1916–1979) MP, officer of the Territorial Army, sent to France 1940, wounded and taken prisoner Oflag IX and Stalag IXa in Toruń, Poland. Escaped, caught and imprisoned in Colditz, escaped again, reached London 1942. Capt. recruited for MI 9 escape and evasion operations as intelligence officer. After the war served on BWCE at Nuremberg, empathised with the Polish cause. Assassinated, probably by the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army).

TNA FCO 28 /1475 ENP10/1, M. S. Baker-Bates’ brief UN (E & S) Department of the FCO to G. Walden Eastern European and Soviet Department (E&SD), 14 June 1971.

TNA FCO 28 / 1475 ENP 10/1, correspondence between 16 May and 24 May 1971, signed by the chairman Franciszek Miszczak, Czesław Kolarczyk and Józef Płoski.

Lord Barnby, Colonel, CMG, CBE, Chairman of the Katyn Memorial Fund.

TNA FCO 28 / 1475 ENP 10/1, analysis of Lord Barnby’s aide memoir by Lord Hankey, 16 June 1971.

TNA FCO 28/ 1476 ENP 10/1, 22 June 1971, also in FCO 28 /1945 ENP 10/1, 17 June 1971.

TNA FCO 28/ 1475, copy of Hansard from17 June 1971, 5.17 pm, covering Lord Barnby’s Motion on Katyn.

TNA FCO 28/1476 ENP 10/1, note by Sir Thomas Brimelow for Lord Aberdare intended as a reply to Lord St. Oswald’s question about Katyn in the House of Lords, 6 July 1971.

NA FCO 28/1945, minutes of the meeting taken by J.A.N. Graham, Private Secretary of Sir Alec, between Airey Neave MP, Lord St. Oswald and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, typed on 19 July 1971, marked confidential for Mr Weston (EE&S Department), copies sent to Sir Thomas Brimelow and David Logan, private secretary to PUS.

TNA FCO 28/1476 ENP 10/1 Part A, brief prepared by the EE&SD of the FCO for Sir Alec Douglas- Home’s meeting with Lord St Oswald and Airey Neave on 19 July 1971.

Members of the Anglo-Polish Memorial Committee: the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Arran, Viscount Monkton, Lord Barnby, Lord St Oswald, MPs Sir George St Clair, Sir Tufton Beamish, Winston Churchill (grandson of Sir Winston), Airey Neave and Peter Archer; among the Poles: President A. Zaleski, Ambassador E. Raczyński, Generals S. Kopański, L. Ząbkowski, K. Ziemski and Dr Z. Stahl; from the USA A. Mazewski, S. Korboński, S. Kolańczyk.

TNA FCO 28/ 1945 ENP 10/1, confidential briefs from EE&SD to Private Secretary from 24 May to July 1972.

TNA FCO 28/ 2533 ENP 10/3, letter dated 3 April 1974.