862.00/845: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)
575. You are instructed in case German request to send additional German troops to Ruhr district to preserve order should come [Page 298] before Council of Ambassadors, to join with your British colleague if he supports the request. Department has been informed by Am[erican] Commissioner in Berlin that the request is strongly supported by British military and diplomatic representatives there but that so far the French agree only if German troops are withdrawn from Frankfort. In the opinion of Department the French counter demand has no bearing on the matter and should not be supported.