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to be to whipsaw French sentiment around by utilizing the 
      food relief question in a most dastardly way so that this group 
      might get the upper hand at Vichy, and with the support of changed 
      French sentiment turn the Navy over to Hitler, and in many other 
      disastrous ways deliver the best interests of France to Germany, 
      as was contemplated by Laval before he was discovered and thrown 
      out by Marshal Petain. I added that the Ambassador could readily 
      the great concern of this Government and hence its repeated discussions 
      with the British Government about the matter of food relief to 
      unoccupied France under the most rigid supervision; that we had 
      purposely not undertaken to stand for an important quid pro quo 
      for the reason that Darlan might turn away and charge that the 
      British were more interested in the pro than in the quid and 
      seek to make large capital of it on the charge of lack of sympathy 
      with and interest in the distressed people of France. This Government 
      seeks to carry both propositions along on parallel lines based 
      on a spirit of cooperation for mutually desirable settlement 
      of various matters pending between the two Governments.
 
      
 
 
The Ambassador said that it would be agreeable for 
 
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