Reel 17429 - Page 0690

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Title

Reel 17429 - Page 0690

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Character Count: 996
Word Count: 172

Source

https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0wh2d924m2v/full/max/0/default.jpg

Date

1941/1945

Rights

Public Domain

Format

image/jpeg

Language

fra

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aggression.

I remarked to him that the first result would be a greater rallying of all Frenchmen in the free and occupied zones about the Marshal who, being struck at once again, would find in their ... ... all the ... and unity necessary.

I told M. CORDELL HULL that I had been personally saddened at not having found in his statement which he had made yesterday explaining the legitimacy of the bombing by the English a single word of sympathy addressed to the French people so grievously tried.

M. CORDELL HULL replied that he had not thought it necessary to do this after the statement made by the Marshal who described the British aggression as dastardly. He added that the leaders of France, for their part, had never expressed their sympathy for the people of the industrial centres of Birmingham and Coventry who had suffered similarly.

I pointed out to the Secretary of State that these people had at least the chance of being protected

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File No. B-786

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