ADSS 1.189 Cortesi to Maglione: Polish government is leaving Warsaw

ADSS 1.189 Filippo Cortesi, Poland, to Luigi Maglione, Sec State

Reference: Telegram 41 (AES 6151/39)

Location and date: Warsaw, 05.09.1939

Summary statement: Polish government is leaving the capital and advises the diplomatic corps to do the same.

Language: Italian

Text:

At this moment, 09.00hrs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs me by telephone that Government intends to evacuate Warsaw and move elsewhere; Diplomatic Corps should leave today by their own means to indicated localities.

I replied: I am prepared to remain; government insists that I leave immediately for Nałęzów, in Lublin diocese, where accommodation has been prepared.

Notes: 

(1) Nałęzów was a spa town near Lublin.  The Germans occupied the town on 20.09.1939.