PARIS, March 7, 1940.
 
          As soon as I left the Elysee Palace I proceeded immediately to the Ministry of National 
 
Defense, where I was received at once by Prime Minister Daladler. My conversation with M. 
 
Daladler lasted just short of two hours and was exceedingly frank and entirely informal.
 
          The Prime Minister first reminded me of a conversation I had had with him in the critical 
 
days of September 1938, and of all of the events which had taken place since that time.
 
          M. Daladier desired me to express to the President the undying gratitude of himself 
 
personally, and of the French people, for the unfailingly sympathetic stud understanding attitude 
 
taken by the President of the United States, and of their tremendous appreciation of the leadership 
 
displayed by the President which had resulted in the revision of the neutrality legislation of the
 
United States. More than that, M. Daladler wanted me to say to the President that the repeated 
 
efforts of the President to prevent the outbreak of war, and to bring about that kind of a just 
 
settlement of European controversies which would make possible a just and permanent peace,  
 
involving security for all the nations of Europe, had, in the opinion of the French Government, 
 
been of the utmost value in brlnglng to the minds of men and women in Europe the moral issues 
 
involved.
 
          I made it very clear to M. Daladler that my Government had at this Juncture no proposals 
 
to proffer, much less any commitments to offer, but that the President had