Office of the Historian

851.01/535: Telegram

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

Washington, July 7, 1942—5 p.m.

3107. Your 3595, June 29, 3 p.m. I have, through the British Embassy here, suggested an arrangement by which we would provide for consultation and cooperation between our military forces and those of the French National Committee in London, with which you have no doubt been kept familiar by the Foreign Office. If this arrangement is finally adopted, it will call for the appointment of an American Admiral and General to act as this Government’s representatives to consult with the French National Committee in London on all matters relating to the conduct of the war. The Secretary of the Navy62a has designated Admiral Stark63 as the naval representative. The War Department states that General Eisenhower64 has been authorized to designate the army representative.65 Please obtain from him the name of the army officer to be appointed for this purpose.

No announcement of the discussions of this question nor of the representatives to be designated should be made until such announcement is authorized here.

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  1. Frank Knox.↩
  2. Adm. Harold R. Stark, Commanding U. S. Naval Forces in Europe.↩
  3. Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander of U, S. Forces in European Theater of Operations.↩
  4. Brig. Gen. Charles L. Bolte was named army representative; he was later succeeded by Gen. John E. Dahlquist.↩