Never had General Charles de Gaulle's nine-month-old, knocked-about Algiers regime seemed so near to recognition as the interim government of all France.
"For Our Future." The U.S. moved toward broadened recognition (see p. 77). Britain accomplished it. Stiff, stern Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, beamingly announced to the House of Commons "a happy augury . . . for our future . . . relationship with France." Whitehall and the Algiers Liberation [Administrative] Committee had initialed: 1) a financial agreement, pegging the rate of exchange, for the duration, at 200 francs to the pound; 2) a mutual-aid agreement, pledging...
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