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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 Giraud; they had, they said, a very pleasant chat. Generals de Gaulle and Giraud studied the various terms of recognition, then replied in kind.

>Washington had said: "The United States . . . welcomes the establishment of the French Committee . . . subject to the military requirements of the Allied Commanders. . . ." Replied the Generals: "reelle satisfaction."

> London: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the French Committee . . . as a body qualified to ensure the conduct of the French effort in the war within the framework of inter-Allied cooperation." The Generals: "sincere satisfaction."

> Ottawa: "The Government of Canada . . . recognizes the ... Committee . . . welcomes [its] determination to carry on the common struggle." The Generals: "tres grande satisfaction."

> Moscow: "The Soviet Union recognizes the French Committee as representative of the state interests of the French Republic and as the leader of all French patriots fighting against the Hitlerite tyranny." The Generals: "profonde satisfaction."

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