Office of the Historian

852.00/2517: Telegram

The Chargé in France (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Paris, August 11, 1936—1 p.m.
[Received August 11—7:40 a.m.]

740. Your 304, August 10, 7 p.m. I have spoken with Bargeton46 who says that the report is “absolutely inexact”. He said that a few days ago the French Chargé d’Affaires in Washington had been instructed to inform the State Department of the proposed non-intervention pact; and that while the French Government would of course be pleased if the American Government should desire to adhere thereto it was not the intention of the French Government to “invite” such adherence.

Repeated to London.

Wilson
  1. Paul Pierre Bargeton, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs in the French Foreign Office.↩