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AN EISENHOWER LETTER FOLLOWING DISCUSSIONS AT CASABLANCA. EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID. Typed Letter Signed ("Dwight Eisenhower") to "My Dear General" [Henri Giraud] clarifying the United States policy and intention regarding supplying the French Armies on the heels of the Anfa Conference,
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AN EISENHOWER LETTER FOLLOWING DISCUSSIONS AT CASABLANCA.
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID. Typed Letter Signed ("Dwight Eisenhower") to "My Dear General" [Henri Giraud] clarifying the United States policy and intention regarding supplying the French Armies on the heels of the Anfa Conference, 2 pp, typed rectos only, 261 x 202 mm, on ALLIED FORCE HEADQUARTERS / Office of the Commander-in-Chief letterhead, paper watermarked "A.W. WEBSTER & CO. / CHARTA PERFECTA," February 24, 1943, "My dear General" in Eisenhower's hand at the head, tri-fold creases for mailing, light stains, accompanied by a contemporary carbon draft of the French translation.
EISENHOWER WRITES AS COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES TO CLARIFY POINTS GENERAL GIRAUD RAISED IN THE "ANFA" MEMORANDUM. As the Anfa Conference at Casablanca came to its conclusion, General Henri Giraud held a short meeting with President Roosevelt, in which he delivered to Roosevelt two memoranda dated January 24, 1943, outlining Giraud's plan for French-Allied relations, including Giraud's role as well as specific promises of arms and equipment for French troops. Remarkably, without passing it to his advisers or to his British counterpart Winston Churchill, Roosevelt signed the document, beginning a flurry of emendations and negotiations between the Allies.
Here, Eisenhower writes to Giraud to clarify those promises, reiterating the American intention to supply "the necessary materiel [sic]," but that regarding the discussions at Anfa, "the intent was to arrive at a basic declaration of principles rather than to a detailed agreement of items or quantities." Eisenhower's diplomacy and ability to encourage cooperation was uniquely suited to the role as Allied commander, and would pave the way to his ascendancy to the presidency in years to come.
EISENHOWER WRITES AS COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES TO CLARIFY POINTS GENERAL GIRAUD RAISED IN THE "ANFA" MEMORANDUM. As the Anfa Conference at Casablanca came to its conclusion, General Henri Giraud held a short meeting with President Roosevelt, in which he delivered to Roosevelt two memoranda dated January 24, 1943, outlining Giraud's plan for French-Allied relations, including Giraud's role as well as specific promises of arms and equipment for French troops. Remarkably, without passing it to his advisers or to his British counterpart Winston Churchill, Roosevelt signed the document, beginning a flurry of emendations and negotiations between the Allies.
Here, Eisenhower writes to Giraud to clarify those promises, reiterating the American intention to supply "the necessary materiel [sic]," but that regarding the discussions at Anfa, "the intent was to arrive at a basic declaration of principles rather than to a detailed agreement of items or quantities." Eisenhower's diplomacy and ability to encourage cooperation was uniquely suited to the role as Allied commander, and would pave the way to his ascendancy to the presidency in years to come.