GRAY
 
                                        PARIS
 
                                        Dated June 10, 1940
 
                                        Rec'd 10:13 p.m,
 
Secretary of State
 
     Washington,
 
     RUSH
     
     1132, June 10, 6 p.m.
 
     PERSONAL FOR THE PRESIDENT
 
     I have just received from Paul Reynaud, President of the Council of Ministers, the
following message to you.  He telephoned to me and asked me to transmit it immediately since his
own code clerks could not possibly do the work.  This is the full text of the message referred to in
my telegram earlier today.
     "Mr. President: I wish first to express to you my gratitude for the generous aid that you
have decided to give to us in aviation and armament.
     For six days and six nights our divisions have been fighting without one hour of rest
against an army which has a crushing superiority in numbers and material.  Today the enemy is
almost at the gates of Paris.
     We shall fight in front of Paris; we shall fight behind Paris; we shall close ourselves in one
of our