740.0011 European War 1939/14470: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Cole)
Washington, September 3, 1941—7 p.m.
234. Your 433, August 28, 2 p.m. For Murphy. The Coordinator of International Broadcasting has investigated this report carefully and ascertains that it was based on an Associated Press despatch from London of the same date. Richardson has enjoined the broadcasters once again to use the greatest care in their references to North Africa.
Hull