Concern of the United States over the disunity between Generals Giraud and de Gaulle in French North and West Africa; recognition of administrative authority of the French Committee of National Liberation 1

1. For previous correspondence regarding the invasion and occupation of French North Africa and the relations of the United States with Free French Forces, see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. ii, pp. 429 ff. and 502 ff. For accounts of military cooperation between the United States and the French forces, see Marcel Vigneras, Rearming the French, and George F. Howe, Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West, both in the series United States Army in World War II (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1957).


[137] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley)

851.01/2401c: Telegram


[143] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

851.01/2492: Telegram


[146] The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

851T.51/28: Telegram


[147] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

851.01/2600: Telegram


[148] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

851.01/2592: Telegram


[151] The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

851.01/2600: Telegram


[153] The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

851.01/2811b: Telegram


[155] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

851.01/2758: Telegram


[156] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

851.01/2830


[161] The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

851.01/3299a: Telegram


[162] Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of European Affairs (Matthews)

851.01/12–2243


[165] The American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

851.01/3292: Telegram


[166] The American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

851.01/3299: Telegram