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851.01/3477: Telegram

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

London, February 29, 1944—midnight.
[Received February 29—10:14 p.m.]

1662. For the Acting Secretary. In answer to your 1448 of February 26, I do not believe that the Prime Minister has to date concluded that the French Committee should be accorded recognition [Page 654] as a provisional government. He has been more friendly toward the Committee since his return from North Africa. I found that Eden’s statement on February 23 in Parliament28 was largely written by the Prime Minister.

I am certain that the British would not want to act without our collaboration and support.

I am sending you Eden’s statement about France in my immediately following cable No. 1663.29

Winant
  1. See Parliamentary Delates, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 397, cols. 929–933.↩
  2. Telegram not printed.↩