• DOI:10.1177/002200947701200209
Corpus ID: 153577101

The Origins of the 'Teheran Formula' on Polish Frontiers

@article{Sharp1977TheOO,
  title={The Origins of the 'Teheran Formula' on Polish Frontiers},
  author={Tony Sharp},
  journal={Journal of Contemporary History},
  year={1977},
  volume={12},
  pages={381 - 393}
}

• Tony Sharp
• Published 1977
• History
• Journal of Contemporary History

On the evening of 1 December 1943 at the Teheran Conference, Winston Churchill proposed to Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin that he be permitted to put to the Polish government-in-exile in London an agreed formula on Poland's post-war frontiers. This read that 'in principle . . . the home of the Polish state and nation should be between the so-called Curzon Line and the line of the Oder, including for Poland East Prussia and Oppeln'. Stalin agreed on condition that Russia obtained the… Expand

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