851.01/8–1444: Telegram
The Acting American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers (Chapin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:48 p.m.]
2667. Massigli sent for me this morning to say, because of the insistence of rumors reported by foreign correspondents, he wished to inform me and my Soviet colleague that his forthcoming visit to London was merely to sign the memoranda agreements on civil affairs and have a general discussion with Eden as regards world problems both during and after the war and that no other significance was to be attached thereto.
I jokingly mentioned that I had heard reports that he might go to London as representative of the Committee with rank of Ambassador. This he half-heartedly denied.
He said that upon his return to Algiers from London, which would be some time around the 24th, he would be very glad if we thought it useful to make a brief trip to Washington and to have a general discussion of Franco-American and world problems along the lines of the conversations which he was to have with Eden.
I should be grateful for any instructions in regard to the preceding paragraph that the Department may care to give me.