Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/17698: Telegram

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

Vichy, December 19, 1941.
[Received December 19—7 p.m.]

1571. Embassy’s 1530, 12th.8 In note dated December 17 Foreign Office acknowledges Embassy’s communication notifying French Government that a state of war exists between the United States and Germany and states that it is “the decision of the French Government to maintain in the course of this conflict an attitude of neutrality.”

Leahy
  1. Not printed; this telegram reported that notes containing declarations of war by the United States against Germany and Italy were delivered at 5 p.m., December 12 (740.0011 European War 1939/17451).↩