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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

486 Mr S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner in London, to Mr R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister

Cablegram 390 [1] LONDON, 4 June 1941

FOR PRIME MINISTER

Polish Government has approached me with regard to Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs' [2] request to you of 11th March for the establishment of a Polish Consulate-General in Australia. He states that his Government have established Consulate-General in Canada and more recently fin] South Africa and New Zealand and now wish to appoint to the post of Consulate-General in Canberra (sic) an official 'de carriere' with diplomatic experience as soon as consent of Australian Government is forthcoming.

I was under the impression that there was already a Polish Consulate-General in Sydney (E.A. Consular List for 1941) but presumably the present occupant [3] is not a career man.

I told Raczynski [4] I would telegraph you and ascertain present position.

BRUCE

1 This cablegram was dispatched as no. 390, but the copy circulated in Canberra (AA: A3830, 1941, unnumbered) was numbered 400.

2 August Zaleski.

3 L. A. de Noskowski, who was a non-career Consul-General.

4 Polish Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

[AA: A2937, CONSULS-(POLAND)]

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