851.01/1518½
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Aide-Mémoire
The following communiqué was issued in London on the evening of May 13th in agreement with General de Gaulle.
“As has been previously explained the intention of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom in undertaking the recent operation in Madagascar was to prevent this territory from being used by the Axis, to preserve it for France and to safeguard French sovereignty. It is the intention of His Majesty’s Government that the Free French National Committee should play its due part in the administration of the liberated French territory since the National Committee is cooperating with the United Nations as the representative of fighting France.”