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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t17429_0698

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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 Frenchman,
has no other signification.

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File No. D-790 Examination Unit