740.0011 European War 1939/2756: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 10—7:27 a.m.]
606. I talked with Ambassador Cudahy on the telephone at 11:15 this morning. He stated that the Germans had already overrun the whole of Luxemburg and the whole of Limburg. There was heavy fighting in the Ardennes. There had been another air raid warning in Brussels but no German planes had crossed the city.
Ambassador Cudahy added that he had almost been knocked down by the force of the bomb which fell 300 feet from his Embassy and that one of his ears had been deafened by it and was still deaf. A number of windows in the Embassy had been shattered.
[Page 193]Ambassador Cudahy said that the information of the French Military Attaché indicated that the Germans had seized the military airport in Amsterdam by the descent of parachutists but that the Dutch had retaken it.