740.0011 (E. W.)/11–742: Telegram
Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to the Consul General at Algiers (Cole)16
[Washington,] October 31,
1942.
No. M–26. For Murphy. Please advise Flagpole that we consider it highly desirable that French commanders be given instructions on D day that incidents on the part of the Spanish, however provocative, should not be permitted to lead to retaliatory action on the part of the French until after the consolidation of the American forces on shore.
Eisenhower is requesting British to make similar representations to France on D day.
[Leahy]
- Copy supplied by the Office of the Secretary of Defense under cover of letter of September 7, 1960.↩