Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/24340: Telegram

The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, September 18, 1942—1 p.m.
[Received September 18—11:01 a.m.]

613. For Murphy. Our saintly friend56 here reports that the other friends, the flagpole sitter,56 are anxious to know what has become of the projected secret meeting of their and our “general staffs” which they state was tentatively planned for September 15 somewhere in North Africa.

Cole
  1. Code name for French contact.↩
  2. Code name for French contact.↩