FOR THE PRESS
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
APRIL 4, 1940
Ko. 156
The Under Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner rfellee,
tonight answered allegations that a map which appears in
a photograph taken in the course of an interview which
he had in Paris with Premier Paul Reynaud served as the
basis for Mr. belles1 discussions with Monsieur Reynaud.
Mr. 'fell©s stated:
"Various allegations concerning a map
which i? shown in the photograph of Monsieur Reynaud
and of myself are fantactio nonsense.   At no
time during the course of my Interviews in Paris
or in any other capital I visited was any refer-
ence made to any maps.    I never oven looked at
any map which may have been in Monsieur Reynaud1s
office.¦