Office of the Historian

851.30/94: Telegram

The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, October 29, 1940—3 p.m.
[Received October 30—2 a.m.]

139. Reliable source states, “Local high command of naval forces has received a telegram from Admiral Darlan,79 ‘I need French Fleet kept in complete readiness day and night to save our Empire.’”

Cole
  1. Jean François Darlan, Minister of Marine in the French (Vichy) Government.↩