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me to say to the French that real progress is being made with 
      respect to the proposed two shipments of wheat to unoccupied 
      France. He suggested that I say that, of course, th %e British 
      would like to see a similar spirit shown by the French government 
      by joining in a plan for rigid supervision to prevent the Germans 
      form infiltrating into French Africa, and by bringing away from 
      the French continental base their naval vessels and stationing 
      them in French African ports. I said that I would, of course, 
      be only too glad to bring these matters up under our plan of 
      dealing with both French and British questions that are being 
      raised by their respective Ambassadors.
 
      
 
 
I sought to repeat the attitude of this Government based on 
      the policy that from the standpoint of aiding Great Britain in 
      the war, this Government should keep in close relationship with 
      France, and to this and my Government would collaborate fully 
      with the British, offering its opinion freely relative to any 
      question, such as the French food relief matter, but never carrying 
      the matter to the point of friction or public disagreement. In 
      case of disagreement, this Government might, if it thought the 
      matter sufficiently important,
 
      
 
 
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