851g.01/44
Memorandum by the Secretary of State
[Washington,] January 3, 1944.
Memorandum of Conversation
Subject: Status of Indochina After the War
| Participants: | Secretary of State Hull and the British Ambassador, Lord Halifax |
The British Ambassador called at his request and remarked that information had come to him from his Foreign Office that in a conversation with the Turks, Egyptians, and perhaps others, during his recent trip to the Near East, the President spoke rather definitely about what purported to be his views to the effect that Indochina should be taken away from the French and put under an international trusteeship, et cetera.…
C[ordell] H[ull]