DIPLOMAT'S REBUFF
AMERICA AND VICHY Rec. 2 p.m. WASHINGTON, July 17. The French Ambassador. M. Henry Haye, was scheduled to confer with Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, regarding Vichy's attitude on the question of the French warships at Alexandria to-day, but was switched to a lcwer ranking official, Mr. James Dunn, political adviser on European affairs. This diplomatic rebuff is believed to have been directed against Laval rather than Haye, who said to the Press: "The situation has been confused by a number of things, and I wished to point out the true facts."
According to the Berlin radio de Brinon, Vichy representative in Paris, declared that if the French ships at Alexandria were compelled to defend themselves against the British it was possible that other French ships would come to their aid.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 168, 18 July 1942, Page 5
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