<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="22748" 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/22748?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-04-13T20:07:31-04:00">
  <fileContainer>
    <file fileId="19557">
      <src>https://omeka.uottawa.ca/examination-unit/files/original/5541bf111ec2f60a1459457bfb5122b9.jpg</src>
      <authentication>db5a44474e79ae1794007a2f15ab783d</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="302340">
            <text># 0 

## 060117

From: Mexico
To: Vichy
136
Dated: August 21, 1942
Rec'd: August 25, 1942
Le Minjstère des Affaires étrangères vient de me notifler que le Gouvernement mexicain avait décidé de procéder aujourd'hui a la saisie du MEROPE (sane) droit diangarie et en considération de l'importance vitale que présente pour la défense du Mexique et de l'hemisphère américain le maintien des transports de pétrole par mer.

Le décret sera publié demain, précédé d'un communiqué destiné à éviter toute interpretation erronée de la part du public. Les mesures sont prises pour le (fonctionnement) de l'enquête à terre, et le Ministère des Affaires étrangères s'efforcera d'obtenir qu'il puisse être dirigé sur la Nouvelle-Orléans (votre tél. 103).
$R=473-1$
CLAUZEL

| From: | Ottawa | Dated: | August 28, 1942 |
| :-- | :-- | :-- | :-- |
| To: | Vichy | Rec'd: | August 29, 1942 |

We serais reconnaissant à V.E. de bien vouloir me mettre en mesure de renseigner la famille WILLNOT sur le sort de son fils ALLAN, 19 ans, (étudi)ant canadien embarqué sur le PAUL SONCOUR qui serait interné à DISKRA ou LAGOGUAT.

RISTELMUEBER

File D-2653
Examination Unit,
National Research Council,
August 31, 1942.</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="302339">
              <text>Reel 17428 - Page 1987</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="302341">
              <text>https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0ff3kx86r16/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="302342">
              <text>Quality Score: unknown
Needs Review: No
OCR Confidence: 0%
Character Count: 1193
Word Count: 200</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="302343">
              <text>image/jpeg</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="44">
          <name>Language</name>
          <description>A language of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="302344">
              <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="302345">
              <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="302346">
              <text>Public Domain</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
  <tagContainer>
    <tag tagId="23">
      <name>1942</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="20">
      <name>Mexique</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="236">
      <name>Nouvelle-Orléans</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="7">
      <name>Ottawa</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="54">
      <name>Vichy</name>
    </tag>
  </tagContainer>
</item>
