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. 533, Hopkins’ notes of January 24, post, p. 839, and Elliott Roosevelt, p. 120. Macmillan, p. 253, recalls that about noon he called on de Gaulle and asked him to come to see Roosevelt at his villa. The brief accounts of the conversation by Macmillan, de Gaulle (p. 94), and Catroux (p. 322) agree that Roosevelt sought unsuccessfully to persuade de Gaulle to accept the text of a draft joint statement or communiqué regarding his meetings with Giraud. The draft joint statement printed post, p. 822, is presumably the one rejected by de Gaulle at this time.