740.0011 European War 1939/27838: Telegram
The Consul General at Algiers (Wiley) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 10—10:12 a.m.]
172. For the Secretary and Under Secretary from Murphy. My 153, February 6, 6 p.m. Giraud today handed me a note77 relating to the reservation which he makes regarding paragraph 4 of the new joint American-British-French memoranda of the Anfa Conference.
The note states that this reservation relates specifically to paragraph 3 of the memorandum of July [January] 24 (my 124, February 1, noon) and asks whether the President would confirm that he recognizes the Commander in Chief residing in Algiers as the “trustee” of French interests in the United States as well as in other countries “of American influences”.
Giraud asks that the foregoing be telegraphed in order that the President may promptly be informed of the reservations which accompany his acceptance of the protocol. He also considers it important that General Eisenhower and I be empowered urgently to put into operation the results of the conversations at Washington and the Anfa Conference. [Murphy.]
- For text of note to which is ascribed the date of February 10, see “Crusoé” [Jacques Lemaigre–Dubreuil], Vicissitudes d’une victoire (Paris, 1946), p. 149.↩