<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="21058" public="1" featured="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="http://omeka.uottawa.ca/examination-unit/items/show/21058?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-05-01T05:48:41-04:00">
  <fileContainer>
    <file fileId="17867">
      <src>https://omeka.uottawa.ca/examination-unit/files/original/58be1ffb33ab3854b0508f25b29f7692.jpg</src>
      <authentication>ccd0fa7aaef47dee93300908bdd8e3bc</authentication>
    </file>
  </fileContainer>
  <collection collectionId="7887">
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="214057">
                <text>Reel 17428</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </collection>
  <itemType itemTypeId="1">
    <name>Text</name>
    <description>A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.</description>
    <elementContainer>
      <element elementId="1">
        <name>Text</name>
        <description>Any textual data included in the document</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="288820">
            <text>From: Washington
To: Vichy
Dated: May 6, 1942
Rec'd: May 7, 1942.
Message No: 1801

Par mon tél. 1791 V. E. a été informée de l'accord presse et radio entraînant le gouvernement des E.U. a engager l'action militaire et navale contre nos possessions de cet hémisphère. Quelques commentateurs s'efforcent de justifier telle action manifestement par la nécessaire pour compléter celle d'entreprise par les Anglais à Madagascar.

Au Département d'Etat on affecte de considérer (comme) ... les assurances données par l'amiral DARLAN le 12 mars et si la confirmation des garanties accordées aux E.U. n'est pas officiellement demandée il est ... qu'une déclaration de V.E. précisant qu'elle les considère toujours comme valides serait (reçue) avec plus vif intérêt par le Département d'Etat. Les journaux ... ... certaines (mesures?) ... qui réellement existent dans quelques milieux officiels où l'on presse l'amirauté de mettre à exécution les plans préparés pour saisir les

File: D-1391 (Continued) Examination Unit</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
    </elementContainer>
  </itemType>
  <elementSetContainer>
    <elementSet elementSetId="1">
      <name>Dublin Core</name>
      <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="50">
          <name>Title</name>
          <description>A name given to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288819">
              <text>Reel 17428 - Page 0297</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="48">
          <name>Source</name>
          <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288821">
              <text>https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0sf2m74b20w/full/max/0/default.jpg</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="41">
          <name>Description</name>
          <description>An account of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288822">
              <text>OCR text updated to v2 on 2026-01-09 using model mistral-ocr-latest-v2. Previous v1 quality metadata (Quality Score, OCR Confidence, Character Count, Word Count) removed.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="42">
          <name>Format</name>
          <description>The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288823">
              <text>image/jpeg</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="44">
          <name>Language</name>
          <description>A language of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288824">
              <text>fra</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="40">
          <name>Date</name>
          <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288825">
              <text>1941/1945</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="47">
          <name>Rights</name>
          <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="288826">
              <text>Public Domain</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="43">
          <name>Identifier</name>
          <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="330999">
              <text>t17428_0297</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
  <tagContainer>
    <tag tagId="23">
      <name>1942</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="152">
      <name>Madagascar</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="54">
      <name>Vichy</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="9">
      <name>Washington</name>
    </tag>
  </tagContainer>
</item>
