Office of the Historian

740.0011 PW/3–1345: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)

Washington, March 19, 1945—midnight.

1090. Your 1196, March 13. French Embassy has left with us three notes14 asking (1) that military assistance, including dropping of arms, medicine and supplies, be extended to the resistance forces in Indo-China; (2) that we conclude a civil affairs agreement for that area and (3) that General Blaizot15 be accredited to General Wedemeyer for liaison purposes.

All three proposals are under study by Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Acheson
  1. Reference is to notes Nos. 303, 304, and 332, dated March 12; No. 332 is not printed.↩
  2. Gen. Roger Blaizot, head of French military mission at Kandy.↩