740.0011 European War 1939/18283
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Extract From a Telegram From London Dated December 22nd, 1941
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Subject to Free French Agreement we have decided to offer terms for the surrender of French Somaliland on the basis that Administration of the Colony should be handed over to the British and eventually transferred to the Free French. In return we would renew our assurances that we have no intention to annex Colony and would permit repatriation for those who wished it.
Washington
, 26
December, 1941.