GRAY
 
                                                                 PARIS
 
                                                                      Dated June 10, 1940
 
                                                                      Rec'd 3:05 p.m.
 
Secretary of State
 
          Washington,
 
      RUSH
     
          1132, June 10, 6 p.m.  (SECTION TWO)
 
     A portion of the government has already left Paris.  I am making ready to leave for the
front.  That will be to intensify the struggle with all the forces which we still have and not to
abandon the struggle.
     May I ask you, Mr. President, to explain all this yourself to your people to all the citizens
of the United States saying to them that we are determined to sacrifice ourselves in the struggle
that we are carrying on for all free men.
     This very hour another dictatorship has stabbed France in the back.  Another frontier is
threatened.  A naval war will begin.
     You have replied generously to the appeal which I made to you a few days ago across the
Atlantic.  Today this 10th of June 1940 it is my duty to ask you for new and even larger
assistance.
                         BULLITT
 
RR