763.72113/2766: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Bullitt)
408. Your 942, June 16, sequestration claims. In order to forestall any suggestions in text of French reply that total amount of claims of one government be turned over to the other government for distribution to its nationals you are requested informally to advise French official who intimated that such a suggestion may be embodied therein that it would be impossible for this Government under the terms of the Trading with the Enemy Act to carry out such a proposal. The act requires that the Alien Property Bureau deal directly with French claimants. Allowance of claims is determined by proof furnished by claimants showing they are eligible claimants under the terms of the act.