Office of the Historian

740.00116 European War 1939/252: Telegram

The Ambassador in Belgium (Cudahy) to the Secretary of State

Brussels, May 16, 1940—noon.
[Received May 169:05 a.m.]

149. For the President. I have been asked by the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps the Apostolic Nuncio62a to request of you that you address an appeal to the German Government not to subject Brussels to bombardment.

The Nuncio told me that he was making a similar request of the Italian Ambassador to be addressed to the King of Italy.

The Belgian governmental authorities assure me that Brussels is an unfortified city and that there are no troops stationed here other than for police purposes.

Cudahy
  1. Msgr. Clemente Micara.↩