New York Timesman Harold Callender, who does all but sleep in the State Department, reported last week: "Robert D. Murphy ... is expected to return to Washington soon for conference with the President and the State Department. It is understood he may not return to Algiers . . . because of ill health and the strain of the past year."
Timesman Callender also noted: "Authoritative reports reaching Washington say that . . . almost all Frenchmen support General Charles de Gaulle's program. . . . The French people ... assume that complete agreement exists among Frenchmen outside France . . ....