File No. 763.72113/542
The Assistant Secretary of State ( Phillips) to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand)1
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to your call on June 7 with reference to the Department’s note No. 2152 of May 25, I beg to advise you that no sale or other disposition of the property in this country belonging to the French resident in that part of France now occupied by the enemy is contemplated, but it will be safely held by the Government of the United States as nearly as possible in the form in which taken over for the owners against enemies and all others, to be returned to the French owners upon the loss of their enemy status, as defined in the Trading with the Enemy Act, being duly established.
I am [etc.]
- A similar letter was sent on the same date to the Belgian Minister. (File No. 763.72113/611.)↩