Reel 17429 - Page 0698

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Reel 17429 - Page 0698

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https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0vh5cd3t31k/full/max/0/default.jpg

Date

1941/1945

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Public Domain

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image/jpeg

Language

fra

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# GEORGE

U.S. government referred to ... because of the fact of her collaboration with France in the Pacific in the administration of our territory.

According to my instructions, I made a formal protest against the procedure employed by the U.S. government who considered themselves authorised to ... the occupation by dissident elements without having previously made clear their intentions to the French government.

With a certain emphasis the Secretary of State said that the intentions of the United States had been already clearly expressed: "to return to France the possession of her empire and eventually to demand the return of those parts which had been taken from her." "Our action in ... ... , he said, is justified by our fears of seeing the French islands in the South Pacific fall into Japanese hands with the ... agreement of Admir of Admiral de COUX. We cannot, under the extremely difficult circumstances of this theatre of war, assume such a risk and the attitude taken by those whom you call dissidents, and we Americans think of only as Frenchmen, has no other signification.

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