§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the outcome of inquiries which His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow has been instructed to make of the Soviet Government with reference to the withdrawal of most of the Red Army and the secret police from Poland, in accordance with the assurances given by Marshal Stalin at Potsdam, so that the Polish Government can hold the free election promised for not later than early 1946.
Mr. McNeilIn reply to the inquiries which he made on my instructions, His Majesty's Ambassador at Moscow has been informed by the Soviet Government that the undertaking given by Generalissimo Stalin at Berlin has been fulfilled and that the only Soviet troops left in Poland are those engaged in protecting the lines of communication of the Soviet Armies in Germany.