Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/6712: Telegram

The Consul at Leopoldville (Mallon) to the Secretary of State

Leopoldville, November 16, 1940—noon.
[Received 12:15 p.m.]

The Governor General of French Equatorial Africa reports that Free French forces entered Port Gentil November 15 completing the occupation of Gabon.

Businessmen, lawyers and minor Belgian Congo Government officials have formed “Congo League of Patriotic Action” with a view to exerting pressure on the Government to increase war effort.

Mallon