740.0011 E. W. 1939/17739: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Leahy) to the Secretary of State
Vichy, December
20, 1941—noon.
[Received 4:03 p.m.]
[Received 4:03 p.m.]
1578. Embassy’s 1530, 12th.8 In note to Embassy December 19 Foreign Office acknowledges Embassy’s communication notifying French Government that state of war exists between the United States and Italy and states that it is “the decision of the French Government to maintain in the course of this an attitude of neutrality”.
Leahy
- Not printed; this telegram reported that notes containing declarations of war by the United States against Germany and Italy were delivered at 5 p.m., December 12 (740.0011 European War 1939/17451).↩