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The Chargé in France ( Murphy ) to the Secretary of State

tish victory. In the latter case the British would certainly demand “much” of France—probably Madagascar and Dakar—and in the former case he believes Germany will take nothing but Alsace-Lorraine “which are lost anyway” and the Cameroons and British Nigeria. For the Germans, he said, realize that after all “they are not colonial administrators”. They will leave the rest of France’s colonial possessions untouched. He has had too [much?] experience, he said, with the British and “their dishonesty” ever to trust them. His family during previous generations was five times—and never by the Germans—…