740.0011 European War 1939/3226: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
Paris, May 22,
1940—11 a.m.
[Received May 22—10 a.m.]
[Received May 22—10 a.m.]
803. I am receiving hundreds of letters daily from French men, women and children, senators, mothers, peasants, imploring me to persuade the Government and the people of the United States to help at this hour not merely with sympathy but with armed force.
As the suffering grows greater a certain amount of bitterness is inevitable. Up to the present time these letters have been couched in terms of gratitude and appeal but there is an undertone [apparent omission]. The cry in every letter is for planes.
Bullitt