740.0011 European War 1939/2987: Telegram
The Ambassador in France ( Bullitt ) to the Secretary of State
Paris
, May 15,
1940—noon.
[Received May 15—9:12 a.m.]
[Received May 15—9:12 a.m.]
666. For the President. Coulondre, former French Ambassador in Berlin, called on me this morning to add another appeal for the French Government for airplanes from the United States. The wastage in the present battle at Sedan is so enormous that a time is foreseen about a month hence when any kind of a plane that can take the air will be better than none.
Is there nothing in the way of obsolete planes of our Army or Navy that can possibly be procured?
Bullitt