Roosevelt Papers
Minute by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill 1
It was agreed between the President and the Prime Minister today that the time had not yet come to recognise formally the F.C.N.L. as the Provisional Government of France, but the matter should be kept constantly under review.
- In the Roosevelt Papers this document and the minute on war criminals (ante, p. 467) are attached to the following memorandum of September 16, 1944, from Churchill’s Assistant Private Secretary to the President’s Naval Aide: “Admiral Wilson Brown: I am sending for your records copies of minutes about the Agreement reached by the President and the Prime Minister yesterday on two points, namely, Treatment of War Criminals and the status of the French Committee of National Liberation. J. R. Colville.” Roosevelt forwarded copies of the two minutes to Hull for his information on September 21, 1944.↩
- On the source text, Churchill’s initials and the date “16.9” are typed, whereas Roosevelt’s initials are in his handwriting. As Colville’s memorandum quoted in fn. 1, above, refers to the agreement reached “yesterday”, September 15 appears to be the correct date for this paper.↩