-2- #149, July 29, 1941, from Bern.
 
balancing expansionistic Prussia.
 
     Vichy and Japan have formed military alliance
 
for common action against England and China. French
 
commander and troops in Indochina have gone north
 
ostensibly to avoid clashes with Japanese, but actually
 
to prepare attack on Burma. Japan will send half
 
million men to Indochina.
 
     Informant laid greatest stress on assurances
 
from General Staff friends that decisive psychological
 
moment now has arrived for England to break Germany
 
in order to terminate war within weeks rather than
 
perhaps months.
 
     Military Attache requests that War Department be
 
informed. (END MESSAGE).
 
                    HARRISON
 
CSB