862t.01/224: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received January 12—9:38 a.m.]
32. Your telegram no. 1732 of December 28. Following received from Allen:
Have received cable instructions through Paris for my guidance regarding speeches in occupied territory by German Cabinet ministers. On December 27 this matter came up for action at which time it was proposed that all representatives at High Commission should sign note to the Reichs Commissioner, Von Starck. Although believing that Cabinet ministers should obey High Commission ordinances, like all others coming into occupied territory, I declined to sign any letter. I suggested that the President of the High Commission sign alone and that was done.