851.01/3489b: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )

1448. On February 20 Duff-Cooper told Chapin in strictest confidence that Prime Minister has veered to the belief that the French Committee should be accorded recognition as a provisional government. Duff-Cooper added that he did not believe Churchill had as yet notified President Roosevelt of his changed opinion and might not do so for the time being.

We would naturally be intensely interested in any information which may come to you tending to confirm or disprove this report.

Stettinius