Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/6724: Telegram

The Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier (White) to the Secretary of State

Tangier, November 18, 1940—noon.
[Received November 18—9:19 a.m.]

63. To my 61, November 15, 4 p.m., should be added that Weygand still insists against doing anything that might embarrass the Pétain Government.

De Gaulle is to return shortly from Africa to London. One of the matters to be discussed with him there is the delicate problem of defining his future position in case General Weygand joined the British.

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