Office of the Historian

740.00119 European Advisory Commission/11–2044: Telegram

The American Representative to the French Provisional Government (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Paris, November 20, 1944—4 p.m.
[Received 5:10 p.m.]

594. In a note signed by Bidault dated November 17, 194427 which I have just received, the Provisional Government formally accepts the invitation conveyed to it on November 11 to become a permanent member of the European Advisory Commission.28 The note states in part that the Provisional Government appreciates the full value of the invitation and requests me to transmit its acceptance to the Government of the United States, copy of note being transmitted by despatch.29

Caffery
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. René Massigli, French Ambassador in the United Kingdom, was designated French Representative to the European Advisory Commission and took his seat in the Commission for the first time at the formal meeting held on November 27, 1944.↩
  3. Despatch 194, November 20, 1944, not printed.↩