Office of the Historian

851.01/10–2144: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Representative to the French Committee of National Liberation at Paris (Caffery)83

Washington, October 21, 1944—11 p.m.

The President had decided to recognize the Provisional Government simultaneously with the announcement by the French of the creation of the interior zone. In view of your 108, October 21, midnight,84 reporting earlier announcement by French, date and hour for release are now set for 12 noon Monday, October 23. British Embassy here is being requested to inform London so that announcement of recognition may take place simultaneously in Washington and London.

Stettinius
  1. Repeated to Rio de Janeiro and Ottawa; repeated to Moscow with following additional paragraph: “Please bring foregoing immediately to attention of Molotov in connection with President’s message to Stalin cabled yesterday” (see supra); and repeated to London with the following additional paragraph: “Please inform Foreign Office immediately.”↩
  2. Not printed.↩