Editorial Note
No official record of the substance of this conversation has been found. The information set forth above is derived from the Log, ante, p. 530. According to Elliott Roosevelt (p. 107), Churchill arrived with news that de Gaulle had agreed to come to Casablanca. For the text of de Gaulle’s message of January 20, 1943, to Churchill, accepting the invitation to attend the Casablanca Conference, see de Gaulle, Documents, p. 128. De Gaulle arrived at Casablanca on January 22.