340.1115A/868: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Genoa (Balch)
Washington, June
15, 1940—6 p.m.
162. Your 83 [82], June 12, 7 p.m. Americans in Mediterranean area have remained there despite warning they should leave while there was time and the Government cannot now undertake to send additional American shipping for them into the dangerous combat zone.
Hull