740.00119 European War 1939/752: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Leahy)
542. Your 776, June 30, 7 p.m., and your 811, July 5, 1 p.m. Following is the text of an aide-mémoire handed to the Department today by the British Embassy:
“On June 30th the State Department were good enough to communicate to the British Embassy a message received that day by the United States Ambassador in Vichy from the French Government setting forth the terms on which the French Government were prepared to authorize the French High Commissioner in Syria to negotiate an agreement for the cessation of hostilities.
It is understood that this message was simultaneously delivered to the Foreign Office by the United States Ambassador in London.
Full consideration has now been given to the French Government’s message, and the British Embassy has been instructed to request the United States Government to inform the French Government that the terms which they proposed for the cessation of hostilities in Syria do not offer a basis for discussion.”
You are requested to communicate the foregoing to the French authorities.