751G.94/281: Telegram

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

61. Department’s telegram 837, December 12, and Embassy’s 1142, December 16.36

Chauvel says that the question of the Japanese attitude with respect to French Indochina and Thailand had been presented several weeks ago to Wiesbaden “for the information” of the German armistice commission. The Embassy gathered that no special emphasis had been laid on the matter and that no German reaction was forthcoming. Chauvel indicated however that this was not strange; that at the round table discussions at Wiesbaden, which occur several times a week, frequently the Germans are given information or answers to questions concerning points which presumably [are] then reported back to Berlin and nothing further is heard. In any event the French do not know whether or not the Germans did make any démarche vis-à-vis Japan as a result.

Leahy