740.0011 P.W./3–1245

The French Ambassador (Bonnet) to the Secretary of State

[Translation]
No. 304

The French Ambassador to the United States presents his compliments to his Excellency the Secretary of State and referring to his note no. 303 of today’s date has the honor to inform the latter that the French Government is desirous of concluding with the American Government, for the territory of the Indo-Chinese Union, an arrangement analagous to the Franco-Allied agreements signed in London on August 25, 194411 and which covered various questions, especially those relating to the civil administration of continental French territory which might arise in the course of military operations leading to its liberation.

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The French Government believes that the conclusion of such agreements for French Indo-China would now be desirable in view of the eventuality of a development of Allied military operations in the Far Eastern Theatre.

Mr. Henri Bonnet is happy [etc.]

  1. For text of agreement between the United States and France with respect to civil affairs administration in France, effected by exchange of letters with memoranda dated August 25, 1944, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) No. 2313, or United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST), vol. 2 (pt 2), p. 1714. Similar agreement was signed on the same date between France and the United Kingdom.