740.0011 PW/3–2445: Telegram

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

1425. For Acting Secretary and Assistant Secretary Dunn. When I took Judge Rosenman18 to call on General de Gaulle this afternoon, General de Gaulle said to me as we were leaving: “It seems clear now that your Government does not want to help our troops in Indo-China. Nothing has yet been dropped to them by parachute.” I spoke of distances and he said “No, that is not the question; the question is one of policy I assume.”

Caffery
  1. Samuel I. Rosenman, Special Counsel to President Roosevelt on mission in Europe.