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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).

[107] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle)

[Washington ], June 5, 1943.

851T.001/37

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

Washington, June 5, 1943—5 p.m.

851.01/2215a: Telegram

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

Washington, June 7, 1943—5 p.m.

851.01/2204: Telegram

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

Algiers, June 7, 1943—6 p.m.
[Received 10:40 p.m.]

851.01/2222: Telegram

[111] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, June 7, 1943—8 p.m.
[Received June 7—6 p.m.]

851.01/2216: Telegram

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

Algiers, June 7, 1943—9 p.m.
[Received June 8—1:07 a.m.]

851.01/2223: Telegram

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

[Washington,] June 8, 1943.

851.01/2403

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

Algiers, June 8, 1943—7 p.m.
[Received June 9—4:36 p.m.]

851.01/2239: Telegram

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

Algiers, June 9, 1943—7 p.m.
[Received June 10—1:46 a.m.]

851.01/2238: Telegram

[116] President Roosevelt to the Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force, North Africa (Eisenhower)

[Washington,] June 10, 1943.

Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. Notation indicated that it was released from the White House Map Room at 6:30 p.m. Eastern War Time, June 10, 1943. This message was sent to Algiers as War Department telegram Freedom 9985.

In a memorandum of the same date Under Secretary Welles with the concurrence of Secretary Hull had sent to President Roosevelt a suggested instruction for General Eisenhower (851T.001/13). No copy of this suggested instruction has been found in Department files. The Roosevelt Library, however, does contain a telegram, drafted in the State Department, with manuscript corrections by President Roosevelt which make it identical with the copy here printed.