Office of the Historian

711.51/243: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Tuck)

Washington, May 21, 1942—11 p.m.

336. Your 727, May 18, 4 p.m., section 5,79 per first paragraph. In reply to a question at press conference today, the Secretary of State answered:

“We have had up fully and freely the question of our deep concern for the French people in their distress and in their conquered situation and our great desire to see restoration of all of her popular institutions, all of those rights and benefits and blessings that the great French Republic once enjoyed.”

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