Office of the Historian

Concern of the United States over the disunity between Generals Giraud and de Gaulle in French North and West Africa; recognition of administrative authority of the French Committee of National Liberation 1

1. For previous correspondence regarding the invasion and occupation of French North Africa and the relations of the United States with Free French Forces, see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. ii, pp. 429 ff. and 502 ff. For accounts of military cooperation between the United States and the French forces, see Marcel Vigneras, Rearming the French, and George F. Howe, Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West, both in the series United States Army in World War II (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1957).

[137] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley)

Washington, June 30, 1943—noon.

851.01/2401c: Telegram

[139] Memorandum by Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, Naval Aide to President Roosevelt

Washington, July 3, 1943.

Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. A copy in the Department of State files is identical except for omission of the third paragraph (851T.001/38). This memorandum was addressed to the Secretary of State: Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces.

[143] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, July 17, 1943—6 p.m.
[Received July 17—5:58 p.m.]

851.01/2492: Telegram

[145] President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister (Churchill)

[Washington,] July 22, 1943—12:25 p.m.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.

[146] The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

Washington, July 24, 1943—6 p.m.

851T.51/28: Telegram

[147] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, July 31, 1943—7 p.m.
[Received August 1—10:20 p.m.]

851.01/2600: Telegram

[148] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, July 31, 1943—9 p.m.
[Received August 1—2:35 p.m.]

851.01/2592: Telegram

[150] President Roosevelt to the British Prime Minister (Churchill)

[Washington,] August 3, 1943.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.

[151] The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

Washington, August 4, 1943—4 p.m.

851.01/2600: Telegram

[153] The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

Washington, August 24, 1943—4 p.m.

851.01/2811b: Telegram

[155] The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, August 26, 1943—6 p.m.
[Received August 27—12:44 a.m.]

851.01/2758: Telegram

[156] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

[Washington,] August 30, 1943.

851.01/2830

[159] The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt

London, 21 December, 1943.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. This telegram and Churchill’s telegram No. 517, dated December 23, 1943 (post, p. 196), were based on press reports. It subsequently became clear that the French Committee was not taking the extreme steps that the Prime Minister feared.

[160] The Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations (Eisenhower), to President Roosevelt

[Tunis,] December 22, 1943.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. This telegram was dispatched via War Department channels from an advanced Command Post near Tunis.

[161] The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Algiers (Wiley)

Washington, December 22, 1943—9 p.m.

851.01/3299a: Telegram

[162] Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of European Affairs (Matthews)

[Washington,] December 22, 1943.

851.01/12–2243

[163] The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt

London, 23 December, 1943.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.

[164] President Roosevelt to the Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations (Eisenhower)

[Washington,] 26 December, 1943.

This message was sent to Algiers as War Department telegram No. 5752; copy obtained from the Department of the Army files.

[165] The American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, December 29, 1943—noon.
[Received 3:52 p.m.]

851.01/3292: Telegram

[166] The American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Algiers, December 31, 1943—2 p.m.
[Received 8:30 p.m.]

851.01/3299: Telegram