Reel 17429 - Page 0693

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Reel 17429 - Page 0693

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1941/1945

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Public Domain

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fra

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From: Washington
To: Vichy
Dated: March 6, 1942
Rec'd: March 10, 1942.

Message No. 916-18.

Referring to your telegrams 547 and 615-16.

With reference to the argument contained in the note presented on March 2 to the American ambassador, the State Department insists on considering that the undertaking made by the French Government on April 8, 1941, was unconditional and M. GORDELL HULL S. Welles considers the arguments advanced to justify the moving of the DUNQUERQUE as beside the point.

I told him that he could see clearly from the correspondence addressed to me by Your Excellency that the holding of the DUNQUERQUE at Oran appeared to be closely associated with the carrying out of the conditions 'of supply' which had not been fulfilled, and I added that my grave anxieties, which I have had ever since February 27 (see my telegram No. 806.) have been confirmed by the recent sinking of the

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File No. D-787
8-379-89-81-0
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Examination Unit