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OCR Page 1 of 217/8/53 - Wire II -- p. 1
Q
You were just in the middle of remarks about the discussion of the President,
Ministers and Ambassadors.
DA
Oh yes, the President had been asked to name one F these Purchasing Agents --
there were three of them -- and Ministers, and I gave him a memorandum which dealt with
this question of titles and he said he wanted to give these people all the rank they could
possibly have, but it seemed to me that the diplomatic titles were being cut into pretty
heavily for a lot of purposes, and perhaps there were other categories of titles that might
be used such as, for instance in regard to Bill D.
instead of giving him the rank
of Ambassador, why don't we give him the personal rank of King. That was supposed to be
prevented by the Constitution which prevented our giving titles of nobility. And we could
move into another field, but I hesitated very much to invade the military area -- certainly
I wouldn't suggest that anyone be called General, Colonel or Major, but we might take up
a military symbol which was the number of guns that a person could have and we might give
people seventben guns to be fired at him when you saw the whites of his eyes. Now I went
on with this for a little while and the Presuident was very much amused. He said, "if I
had had this a half an hour ago, I wouldn't have done it, but I have given him the rank."
Well, now, in regard to this question of one voice, I have picked out an illustration to
talk about where I think we really outdid ourselves and I am not sure that I can really
is ARCHIVES RECORDS *NATIONAL
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set it down because it is too confusing, even for me, and I am pretty deeply confused.
late
This has to do with our arrangments in North Africa/in 1942 and in 1943, am this was
triumph of organization by Americans who were supposed to be good in organization. After
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the military operatidns in North Affica were over, we had the/people who were representing
the United States in that area. There was first of all the military G5 which ulti-
mately came under the control of Chuck Spoffard who was then a Colonel and later a General
in the Army -- that was the whole military civilian operation, military government
affairs. Then you had another group of people who in and out of military rank under Bob
those were the people who had prepared the invasion and helped the French
authorities there. Most of them were State Department people and to whom they report and
reported I never knew. I never knew what they said or what their views about it. They may
Hull
have reported to the President or to Mr. Howell or to Mr. Wells or to the Army. If they
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