851.4061 Motion Pictures/81: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Armour)
180. It is reported to the Department that Sapène has persuaded French Cabinet officers that American film interests will accept the 4 to 1 quota and thirty per cent free entry for three years and that the matter will probably be decided in this sense at Cabinet meeting Tuesday. Hays informs the Department that American film interests cannot accept any such decision, that on the contrary they will withdraw entirely from France as soon as their present contracts expire. You should inform Foreign Office of this before the Cabinet meeting, explaining that the decision was unanimously reached at a meeting of all motion picture companies held in New York last Friday.