Office of the Historian

811.20 Defense (M)/4713/22: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State

La Bourboule, July 5, 1940—8 a.m.
[Received July 7—9:33 p.m.]

18. My number 12 of July 3, noon.28 The Ministry of Colonies has been discovered29 and Chauvel30 stated yesterday that a telegram ordering the immediate release of our wolfram ore and antimony in Indochina had gone forward.

Bullitt
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. The Ministry of Colonies was in the process of moving from Bordeaux to Vichy.↩
  3. Jean Chauvel, Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the French Foreign Office.↩