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A portion of this telegram                                                                                Ottawa
 must be closely paraphrased                                                                    Dated June 11, 1940
 before being communicated                                                                          Rec'd 3:07 a.m.
to anyone. (C &A)
 
 
 
Secretary of State
 
Washington
 
RUSH
 
134, June 14, 7p.pm. (SECTION TWO)
 
     The French ministers had instructed Reynaud to in-
 
quire whether, if the worst should happen, Britain would
 
admit that France had done all she could and might enter
 
into a separate peace. Churchill  replied that Britain
 
could not consent to the French making a separate peace.
 
    Meanwhile the message from the President (which
 
Churchill quoted verbatim to Mackenzie King) reached
 
Reynaud. Churchill read this as an invitation to France
 
to continue and stated that while the President is of
 
course unable to declare war. to remind congress the message
 
went "to the very edge of such a step and seemed to give the
 
assurance which Reynaud required.
 
       Accordingly the British pledge to France was given.
 
 Churchill now appealed to Canada to give  a similar
 
pledge "(?)" now that Roosevelt has committed  himself as we
 think he has in his reply to Reynaud
 
(GRAY) Mackenize