Editorial Note
The only material found on this meeting is that printed in Hull, p. 1241. Recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation was the principal subject of discussion, and it was presumably at this meeting that the final decision was taken that the United States and British Governments would issue separate statements on this subject. For a draft of a British statement on this subject marked “10.00 a.m. meeting August 24”, see post, p. 1110.1
- In a letter to Hull dated August 26, 1943, Atherton reported as follows on a conversation which he had had with Roosevelt on August 25 at Ottawa: “Yesterday when I saw the President, he referred to the Quebec conversations and said that Eden had been the noncooperative member and, with particular reference to the French situation, the President repeated what he had already told you, that he had offered to wager Eden a dinner that before many months had run he would have quite a different view of the French Committee of Liberation, but that Eden was unwilling to take the bet. The President said that he thought that but for Eden he could have made much further headway with the Prime Minister in this matter.” (Hull Papers)↩