BRITISH EMBASSY,
 
                                        WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
                    June 17th, 194O
 
Dear Mr. President,
 
              I have just been informed by the 
 
Foreign Office that, as you are no doubt aware, 
 
the new French Government asked through the 
 
Spanish Government for the cessation of 
 
hostilities and to be informed of the 
 
conditions on which an armistice would be 
 
granted.
 
           His Majesty's Ambassador in Bordeaux 
 
has now been instructed to make to the new 
 
French Government the communications regarding
 
the question of an armistice which were
 
contained in paragraph 2 of the telegram sent
 
to me yesterday by Lord Halifax (copy ofwhich 
 
marked (1) I gave you last night) and in the
 
                              telegram/
 
The Honourable
 
               Franklin D. Roosevelt,
 
                    President of the United States of America, 
 
                                   Washington, D.C.