811.91262/202: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France ( Leahy )
916. For Paris. Your 841, March 18. In order that the Department may reply suitably to the inquiries, which are increasingly numerous and imperative, regarding the present status of the case of Mr. Jay Allen, please telegraph whether (1) any representative of this Government or any private American citizen has been permitted to visit Mr. Allen since his arrest and incarceration at Chalon-sur-Saône; (2) in your opinion it would be wise to make a formal request of the German authorities that an official of this Government visit Allen; (3) you are in communication with him directly or indirectly; (4) he is receiving food; (5) there is any further disposition on the part of the Germans to commute his imprisonment.