Office of the Historian

362.115/188: Telegram

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

Paris, June 11, 1938—noon.
[Received June 11—9:45 a.m.]

913. My 872 June 2, 6 p.m.37 Foreign Office informed the Embassy yesterday evening that French Ambassador in Berlin had completely revised note before presenting it on June 2.

Note as actually presented merely points out that when Franco-German convention of July 28, 193438 was signed, German legislation had not established any distinction between Aryans and non-Aryans which might be extended to foreign nationals possessing property in Germany. Had such distinctions existed France would have been compelled by a principle of her own internal legislation to refuse signature. Confidence is expressed that German Government will not take any measures which will render questionable the validity of the convention by an innovation difficult of justification from the point of view of international law.

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Bullitt
  1. Not printed; it transmitted the text of a French note to be presented to the German Government (362.115/181).↩
  2. Reichsgesetzblatt, pt. ii, July 31, 1934, pp. 422–448↩