Editorial Note
No official record of the substance of the discussion at this dinner has been found. The information set forth above has been derived from the Log, ante, p. 535, and from Kenneth Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy: Our French Dilemma (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945), pp. 149–152. According to Pendar’s account, the conversation ranged over a number of topics including Morocco, the Arab problem, the de Gaulle-Giraud controversy, and the rebuilding of France. No record has been found of the exchange of correspondence between Roosevelt and the Sultan of Morocco alluded to by Pendar.