ROOSEVELT LIBRARY, US NATIONAL ARCHIVES

File concerning rearmament of French army, includes: summary of conversaton between John McCloy and French Army officials regarding requisitioning conducted by American troops in North Africa, need for modern equipment, airplanes, possibility of mobilising Frenchmen residing in US with view to sending them to North Africa. - Memo from State Department to Eisenhower and Robert Murphy, regarding impression held in North Africa that they are being treated as an occupied territory rather than an ally. - Paper on Washington procedures applicable in meeting French North African military requirements. - Information from US military officials on rearmament, supplies and equipment and arrangement for their transport. - Jean Monnet relates Giraud's demand for troops, as French losses high due to inferior equipment in Tunisia. - Material on shipping difficulties for supply of equipment and French need to take some share in defense of their own bases in North Africa.

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