The Archive · 1940

American Note Vichy Envoy Believes No Immediate Action Likely

Wi, Nov. 5.

The reply of Marshal Petain, head of the Vichy Government, to Presi-

"I carried away a ston today to Mr. Cordell Hull, State Secretary, by the French Ambassador.

French official quarters declined to reveal the contents of the note.

"There will not be an immediate American move to take over French jan, Smuts, refe io the Bec was the belief expressed by lena in the Western hemis-

Lag Gaston the French Have, after, delivering Marshal Petain's' reply.

He leid the press Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr. Sumner Wells, Undered. He had no objection to the plication of the reply but this was develop-

ôt long-range Master Ludwig Theodore Werner The Chapel of the International Funeral Directors, 207 Kiaochow Road, was filled to overflowing yesterday afternoon when funeral services were conducted for the late Master Ludwig Theodore Werner. Pastor F. Maas of the German Lutheran Church officiated. The deceased was the ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Werner and he died at the Country Hospital last Sunday of typhoid fever. A group of German Boy Scouts formed a guard of honor at the funeral services. A beautiful spray of white roses from Mummy and Daddy" rested on the casket.

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