PAP                                          PARIS
This telegram must be 
closely paraphrased be-                           Dated May 14, 1940
fore being communicated
to anyone.  (D)                                   Rec'd 8:05 p.m.
 
Secretary of State
     
     Washington
 
     RUSH
 
     657, May 14, 7 p.m. (SECTION FIVE)
 
     (Three) It has been suggested to me by many persons that you might let Mussolini know
privately that in case he should go to war at this time as Hitler's ally you would do everything in
your power to cut off from Italy all immigrant remittances and other funds which Italy ordinarily
receives from the United States.
     (Four) All the members of the government including Reynaud, the Senators, and others
with whom I have talked today have implored me to obtain more planes immediately and have
become exceedingly depressed when I explained that so far as I knew no plans were available.
     You will have thought of other possible methods of influencing Mussolini and I do not
wish to make this telegram any longer but I must and it by saying the unless action is immediate it
will come too late and that no one in France, general or statesman, believes that France can resist
an attack by Italy at this time when every available man