Office of the Historian

793.94/15009: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State

Paris, May 15, 1939—6 p.m.
[Received May 15—1:25 p.m.]

945. Leger29 said to me today that he was somewhat fearful that Japan might be thinking of some sort of aggressive action against French Indo-China. Six times in the last week Japanese airplanes had flown over portions of Indo-China and had dropped bombs. The Japanese Government had been informed that any Japanese plane flying over any portion of Indo-China in the future would be shot at immediately. Since this warning no Japanese planes had flown over French Indo-China.

Bullitt
  1. Secretary General of the French Foreign Office.↩