740.0011 European War 1939/22040a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to All American Missions

You are instructed to notify the Government to which you are accredited that the Government of the United States, by unanimous resolutions of Congress signed today by the President, has declared that a state of war exists between the United States and Bulgaria, and Hungary and Rumania.28

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The texts of the three resolutions are identical mutatis mutandis with the declaration of war on Germany.29 See Department’s circular telegram of December 11, 1941.30

  1. For texts of the Joint Resolutions of Congress declaring a state of war with Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania, see Department of State Bulletin, June 6, 1942, p. 510, and 56 Stat. 307. For text of the President’s message to Congress, June 2, recommending that Congress recognize a state of war between the United States and those three Governments, see Department of State Bulletin, June 6, 1942, p. 509. See also The Memoirs of Cordell Hull (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1948), vol. ii, pp. 1175–1176.
  2. For text of the Joint Resolution of Congress, December 11, 1941, declaring a state of war with Germany, see Foreign Relations, 1941, vol. i, p. 590.
  3. Not printed.