851D.20/23: Telegram
The Consul at Cayenne (LaMont) to the Secretary of State
Cayenne, March 17,
1943.
[Received March 18—12:15 p.m.]
[Received March 18—12:15 p.m.]
17. Direction government taken over committee natives and French officers. Important that Governor, collaborators and families, 10 persons in all, leave country at once as lives in danger. Please arrange earliest possible plane transport. Brazilian Consul telegraphing for permission for them to go to Belem.
Sent to Department, repeated to Rio de Janeiro, Paramaribo and Algiers.
LaMont