Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, General and Europe, Volume II

811.20 Defense (M)/4713/22: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State

La Bourboule, July 5, 1940—8 a.m.
[Received July 7—9:33 p.m.]

18. My number 12 of July 3, noon.²⁸ The Ministry of Colonies has been discovered²⁹ and Chauvel³⁰ stated yesterday that a telegram ordering the immediate release of our wolfram ore and antimony in Indochina had gone forward.

Bullitt

28. Not printed.
29. The Ministry of Colonies was in the process of moving from Bordeaux to Vichy.
30. Jean Chauvel, Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the French Foreign Office.