In high spirits, U.S. Minister Robert Murphy and British Minister Harold MacMillan made a round of calls in Algiers. First they dropped in on French Foreign Affairs Commissioner Rene Massigli. They bore good news: Washington and London had granted limited recognition to the three-month-old French Committee of Liberation. Amiable Rene Massigli expressed "pride and satisfaction," the more so because the Anglo-American action released the spring that had held back Canada, Russia and most of the other United Nations. Ministers Murphy and MacMillan went on to visit Generals
Charles de Gaulle and Henri...
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