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Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918
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Historical SummaryOn June 17, 1940, the United States diplomatic chiefs in Berlin and Rome were instructed by the Secretary of State to notify in writing the governments to which they were accredited of the following sentiments. The precaution was necessary because France still possessed several colonies in the Western hemisphere.
World History 261.
Note of the United States to Germany and Italy on European Possessions in the Western Hemisphere11
The Government of the United States is informed that the Government of France has requested of the German Government the terms of an armistice.
The Government of the United States feels it desirable, in order to avoid any possible misunderstanding, to inform Your Excellency that in accordance with its traditional policy relating to the Western Hemisphere, the United States would not recognize any transfer, and would not acquiesce in any attempt to transfer, any geographic region of the Western Hemisphere from one non-American power to another non-American power.
I avail myself [etc.]
11 United States, Department of State (Publication No. 2669), United States and Italy 1936–1946. Documentary Record, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1946, p. 18.
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Chicago: "Note of the United States to Germany and Italy on European Possessions in the Western Hemisphere," Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918 in Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, ed. Walter Consuelo Langsam and James Michael Egan (Chicage: Lippincott, 1951), 876. Original Sources, accessed April 26, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=C6DEAKRHAZ28BD5.
MLA: . "Note of the United States to Germany and Italy on European Possessions in the Western Hemisphere." Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, in Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, edited by Walter Consuelo Langsam and James Michael Egan, Chicage, Lippincott, 1951, page 876. Original Sources. 26 Apr. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=C6DEAKRHAZ28BD5.
Harvard: , 'Note of the United States to Germany and Italy on European Possessions in the Western Hemisphere' in Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918. cited in 1951, Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, ed. , Lippincott, Chicage, pp.876. Original Sources, retrieved 26 April 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=C6DEAKRHAZ28BD5.
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