Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 243
		6 Dec. 45 I think it is unnecessary to read any more of that letter. As I have already indicated to the Tribunal, the answer to that was the order to his armed forces to invade Poland on the following morning. That document is Exhibit TC-72, Number 124, which becomes GB-59. I put in evidence also the next document, TC-72, Number 126, GB-60, which is the reply to that letter from the President of the Polish Republic, in which he accepts the offer to settle the differences by any of the peaceful methods suggested. On the 25th of August, no reply having been received from the German Government, President Roosevelt wrote again: "I have this hour received from the President of Poland a reply to the message which I addressed to Your Excellency and to him last night." The text of the Polish reply is then set out. "Your Excellency has repeatedly publicly stated that the aims and objects sought by the German Reich were just and reasonable. "In his reply to my message the President of Poland has made it plain that the Polish Government are willing, upon the basis set forth in my message, to agree to solve the controversy which has arisen between the Republic of Poland and the German Reich by direct negotiation or the process of conciliation. "Countless human lives can yet be saved, and hope may still be restored that the nations of the modem world may even now construct the foundation for a peaceful and happier relationship, if you and the Government of the German Reich will agree to the pacific means of settlement accepted by the Government of Poland. All the world prays that Germany, too, will accept." But, My Lord, Germany would not accept, nor would she accept the appeals by the Pope which appear in the next document. I am sorry-the President of Poland's reply, TC-72 becomes Number 127, GB-61. They would not agree to those proposals, nor would they pay heed to the Pope's appeal, which is TC-72, Number 139 on the same date, the 24th of August, which becomes GB-62. I do not think it is necessary to read that. It is an appeal in similar terms. And there is yet a further appeal from the Pope on the 31st of August, TC-72, Number 14, which becomes GB-63. It is 141; 1 beg your pardon. It is TC-72, Number 141. 1 think the printing is wrong in the Tribunal's translation: 243
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