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Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") ["FCO's approach is unnecessarily defeatist (you will recall that they advised against trying to get to Gdansk at all). Now we have won Polish agreement that you should go there, we need to negotiate just as firmly for a satisfactory programme"] [declassified Jul 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/2385 f229
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 6pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Media, Religion & morality, Charles Powell minutes, British relations with the Soviet Union