"On June 17," the State Department announced last night, "Secretary of State Hull instructed the American el in. Berlin apd the A an Ambassador in Rome ti comrfunicate in writing to the foreign. ministers of Germany and Italy the following communication from the Government of the United States:
"The Government of the United States is informed that the Government of France has requested the German Government to submit terms for an armistice, The Government of the United States feels it desirable, in erder to avoid any possible misunderstanding, to inform your Chancellery that according to its traditional policy relating to the Western Hemisphere, the United States would not recognize any transfer and would not acquiesce in any attempted transfer of any geographic region of the Western Hemisphere from one non-American power to another non-American power."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.