PM                                Algiors
This telegram must be
closely paraphrased be-                 Dated August 24, 1941
fore being communicated
to anyone. (SC)                         Rec'd 4:50 p.m.
 
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington.
 
     428, August 24, 10 a.m. (SECTION 0NE).
 
     Your 219, August 18, 8 p.m.
 
     FOR THE UNDER SECRETARY FROM MURPHY.
 
     Weygand was pleased over the suggestion that 
General Requin would be acceptable, should the French
Government indicated that it wished to make a change in
mission.  He said he would urge the replacement of Henri-Hay
by Charles Roux during his visit to Vichy last June
stating it to the Marshal and Darlan that it would be 
better to have no representation in Washington rather
than the present one.  Furthermore, he considers
Foreign Office rather than accept Laval's policy of]
collaboration, the best qualified French diplomat
today.  Darlan, however, states that Charles Roux's nomination