Office of the Historian

811.91262/189: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Leahy)1

Washington, March 17, 1941—6 p.m.

803. For Paris. According to a D. N. B.2 report Jay Allen, American correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, was [Page 598] arrested together with another unnamed American citizen while endeavoring to cross the demarcation line between occupied and unoccupied France without correct papers.

Please investigate and submit prompt report.

Welles
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to The Chargé in Germany as telegram No. 779.↩
  2. Deutsches Nachrichten Büro.↩