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JAMES CLEMENT DUNN
Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1
1 Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.
TOP SECRET
LONDON, 16 November 1944.
Prime Minister to President Roosevelt. Personal and Top Secret.
Number 822.²
2
Paragraph 2 of this telegram is printed ante, p.
3. Thank you for your kind wishes about the Paris-De Gaulle
trip.³ I certainly had a wonderful reception from about half a million
3 The reference is to Roosevelt's No. 648, of November 14, 1944, ante, p.-
French in the Champs Élysées and also from the party opposition
centre at the Hôtel de Ville. I reestablished friendly private relations
with De Gaulle, who is better since he has lost a large part of his
inferiority complex.
4. I see statements being put out in the French press and other
quarters that all sorts of things were decided by us in Paris. You
may be sure that our discussions on important things took place solely
on an ad referendum basis to the three great powers, and of course
especially to you who have by far the largest forces in France. Eden
and I had a two-hours talk with De Gaulle and two or three of his
people after luncheon on the 11th. De Gaulle asked a number of
questions which made me feel how very little they were informed
about anything that had been decided or was taking place. He is
of
course anxious to obtain full modern equipment for eight more divi-
sions which can only be supplied by you. SHAEF reasonably con-
tends that these will not be ready for the defeat of Germany in the
field and that shipping must be devoted to the upkeep of the actual
forces that will win the battles of the winter and spring. I reinforced
this argument.
5. At the same time I sympathize with the French wish to take
over more line, to have the best share they can in the fighting or what
is left of it, and there may be plenty, and not to have to go into Ger-
many as a so-called conqueror who has not fought. I remarked that
this was a sentimental point which ought never the less to receive
consideration. The important thing for France was to have an army
prepared for the task which it would actually have to discharge,
namely their obligation first to maintain a peaceful and orderly France
behind the front of our armies, and secondly to assist in the holding
down of parts of Germany later on.
6. On this second point the French pressed very strongly to have a
share in the occupation of Germany not merely as subparticipation
under British or American command but as a French command.
I
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