Document 1
Source: Letter from the Polish ambassador to North Korea to the Polish Foreign Ministry in Warsaw,
March 13, 1952.
Comrade, I am sending you some news from Korea. There are no major changes on the front. Here and
there, one side captures some mountain peak, but the front line remains at essentially the same positions.
The Americans have again been putting strong pressure
on certain sectors, but our communist armies push
back all their attacks.
Poland's assistance to Korea is very modest and insufficient. The Koreans expect greater help from us, a
country of 25 million. I want to tell
you how other Eastern European countries are assisting them, but I will
not bring up the Soviet Union and China. There has been a Hungarian hospital in Korea that can
accommodate 3,000 patients for 20 months. Romania also has a hospital for 3,000 people and is also
supplied by everything that a hospital needs. The Czechs are sending huge quantities of medicine. In light of
the assistance of these countries, it would be good for us to send some machines for processing metals and
to send them together with master craftsmen and locksmiths who would set up the machines and teach the
Korean teams to work at these machines. This would be both nice and useful.
With a proletarian greeting.
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