AS                                           (Paris)
This telegram must be                             Vichy
closely paraphrased before being communi-                   Dated November 12, 1940
cated to anyone.  (C.)                                 Rec'd 9 a.m., 13th
 
 
Secretary of State
 
     Washington.
 
     939, November 12, 4 pm. (SECTION ONE).
 
     The informant mentioned in my telegram No. 649, September 27, 2 p.m. called yesterday
to tell me the true story of the de Brinon interview (my telegram 902, November 6, 4 p.m.) and
German efforts to pin responsibility for France's entry into the war on the United States. 
Achenbach of the German embassy at Paris has for some time been working on Daladier's private
Secretary Mademoiselle Mollet, along the line that Daladier was really, from the German point of
view, a man of the best intentions; that the Germans did not hold him responsible for the war; that
he was merely duped or misled by the United States and especially by Ambassador Bullitt.  When
sufficiently indoctrinated she was sent with the connivance of Laval to see Daladier at Chazeron
to endeavor to persuade him to base his defense on and issue a statement as to false assurances of