740.0011 European War 1939/3222: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 21—6:58 p.m.]
799. Charles-Roux, the new Secretary General of the French Foreign Office, asked to see me at 7 o’clock this evening. He said that Paul Reynaud had asked him today urgently to obtain a reply to his communication to me reported in my number 749 of May 18, 10 p.m.
I replied that I regretted to have to say that I had received no answer from my Government on this subject. There appeared to be some delay in telegraphic communications from the United States to France.
I then repeated to him the comments that I had made to Léger and Paul Reynaud reported in my telegrams 744, May 18, 5 p.m., and 749, May 18, 10 p.m. He said that he understood our point of view perfectly.
[Page 232]Later the President said to me over the telephone that a reply to my telegrams on this subject approving entirely what I had said should have gone forward to me yesterday.
I therefore telephoned to Charles-Roux and said to him that the position of the American Government was exactly the position I had expressed to him earlier this evening.