851.01/2198: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)
1118. For Murphy. We are in close consultation with the War Department on the North African situation and I want you to know, recalling particularly paragraph 2 of your 1032 of June 3, noon, that the very suggestion that General Giraud might under any circumstances contemplate resigning from the Committee would create not only a most unfortunate impression in playing into the hands of his opponents but for the future of France would jeopardize the very aims he as a good Frenchman has in view. As you know, this Government has consistently favored the unity of all French elements resisting Axis aggression, and it is within this unity that General Giraud can play his greatest role.