740.0011 European War 1939/3984½: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Bordeaux (Waterman)

16. For Ambassador Biddle. The President desires that you transmit the following message from him to Paul Reynaud sent in reply to a message which he received yesterday.

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“Your very deeply moving message has reached me and I wish to tell you how truly grateful I am for what you were good enough to say.

The American people will not forget the brilliant, courageous and effective resistance which you carried on at the head of your Government in the name of France.

The American people and their Government share the conviction that the ideals which France has exemplified for so many generations—the ideals of human liberty, of democracy and of the highest form of human civilization—will still triumph and that France herself will ultimately regain her full independence and freedom. Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Please telegraph if you are able to deliver this message.

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