740.0011 European War 1939/12656: Telegram
The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the Secretary of State 34
[Received 2:53 p.m.]
280. From Murphy. I learn from an excellent source that General Weygand is the subject of a bitter complaint from the German Armistice Commission through the French liaison at Wiesbaden, a copy of which was transmitted by Vichy to the General. The Commission’s communication bluntly states that the work of the Commission in French Africa is being sabotaged and impeded at every turn and that the Commission’s efforts to establish amicable relations with both French and natives in North Africa are consistently thwarted.
The communication points out that French policy in Africa does not harmonize with the spirit of collaboration affecting Franco-German relations in Europe.
[Page 386]Weygand in his acknowledgment to Vichy contented himself with the statement that he has noted the Commission’s comments with interest.
Repeated by air mail to Vichy, Tunis, Casablanca and Tangier. [Murphy.]
- The first three paragraphs of this telegram were repeated to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom in telegram No. 2398, July 2, 6 p.m.↩