Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/4174a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Lagos (Jester)12

Washington, June 24, 1940—6 p.m.

Department would appreciate receiving by telegraph any information you may be able to obtain in regard to the attitude of the armed forces in French colonial territories toward carrying on the war.

Hull
  1. The same telegram was sent on the same date to the Consul at Leopoldville.↩