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The Consul at Leopoldville ( Mallon ) to the Secretary of State

Governor General of French Equatorial Africa who is becoming increasingly anti-British. Military mission 27 members, 3 automobiles, 9 trucks, 3 motorcycles en route from England via Capetown, 4 officers arriving August 25. Civil liaison officer from Lagos already here. The British organizing local volunteer corps. Economic mission consisting of Lord Hailey Head of British economic mission to the Belgian Congo. and representatives of the Colonial Office and the Board of Trade due to arrive in 2 weeks. Viewed as an effort to fortify the position of the Belgian Congo and to win French Equatorial …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1940-08-24
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940, General and Europe, Volume II
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1940v02/d728
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Record ID	`frus:frus1940v02/d728`

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The Consul at Leopoldville ( Mallon ) to the Secretary of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1940. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1940v02/d728.