French Debt
Documents from 22 February 1939 to 04 April 1939Identity Statement
HAEU Reference Code
JMAS-39
Original Reference Code
PRESIDENTIAL SECY'S FILE, BOX 30
Extent and Medium
14
Physical Medium
Paper
Reference Archivists
Carr, Mary
Content and Structure
Abstract
Letters from US Ambassador to France, W.C. Bullitt, to Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, Secretary of State regarding French debt to US, includes: details of French Governments suggestion for settlement of debt with gold and "French possessions" in order to be relieved from restrictions of the Johnson Act,- details Jean Monnet's mission to US to negotiate debt arrangements, Bullitt asked FDR to see Monnet, but advises him not to have Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury in on initial meeting.
Conditions of Access and Use
Languages
English
Type of Archival Materials
Textual
Allied Materials
Location of Originals
The originals are held in various Archives and Presidential Libraries in the USA
Existence of Copies
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