Reel 17429 - Page 0671

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Reel 17429 - Page 0671

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https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0bn9x18wb1t/full/max/0/default.jpg

Date

1941/1945

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Public Domain

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image/jpeg

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fra

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t17429_0671

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From: Washington
To: Vichy
Dated: March 3, 1942.
Rec'd: March 7, 1942.

Message Nos. 864-66.

I have already taken the opportunity of informing the Department of the excellent work which has been done by Prof. LOUIS ROUGIER in the field of commerce in the U.S.A. On several occasions he has not hesitated to defend our country and our government before audiences which have often been hostile. In particular, Prof. ROUGIER has just begun a series of lectures for ... of France and has presented a memorandum on the subject to President ROOSEVELT. At the moment he is writing a series of (articles?) dealing with the problems of the France of to-day and gathering around him a group of people who can help him in his work. ... M. ROUGIER, who has incurred the violent antipathy of de Gaullist sympathisers, will soon find himself without funds or a position. On account of his loyalty to our government, the new free-french University

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File No. D-775
Examination Unit
236
334
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