Although the war was by no means over, cracks were beginning to appear in the Axis tactics, which led the French Committee of National Liberation (CFNL), in Algiers, including Monnet to turn their heads towards dealing with a devastated Europe after Liberation. Monnet had been appointed Commissariat for Armaments, Supply and Reconstruction which meant he had responsibility for military issues, liberation of France and organising imports into France. The main hurdle Monnet had to surpass was Roosevelt's reluctance to deal with the CFNL or to give it the recognition as the de facto government of the French Republic, his view was that like Italy, France should be treated as an occupied country. This obviously led to problems in signing agreements, it wasn't until the CFNL became the Provisional Government of France in May 1944 that such bureaucratic problems eased, which led to the signing of the Memorandum concerning Lend-Lease and Reciprocal Aid, July 25 1944.

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