Office of the Historian

740.00118 European War 1939/22: Telegram

The Chargé in France (Murphy) to the Secretary of State

Vichy, December 7, 1940—5 p.m.
[Received December 8—6 p.m.]

1103. Your 779, November 30, 5 p.m.2 Rochat3 suggests informally that the Department might wish to send the naval officer in question to Dakar as a Vice Consul detailed to that office. Rochat believes such action would avoid any possibility of embarrassment and would probably better suit the Department’s purpose.

Muephy
  1. Not printed; it instructed the Charge to endeavor to obtain permission to send a naval officer as an observer.↩
  2. Charles Antoine Rochat, Acting Secretary General of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.↩