Through the Looking Glass

At Quebec the rumor was refloated that the Allies would, at long last, give some sort of recognition to the French Committee of National Liberation.

Wrote Paul Winkler in The Nation last week:

"The French Committee of National Liberation held a meeting in Algiers today, deliberating whether it should recognize the State Department as a body representing American interests. . . .

"General de Gaulle said that the State Department could not be recognized by the Committee because, according to confidential information he had received, the source of which he could not reveal, 'there was no State Department' and consequently it could not be said yet with certainty whether there was a United States of America at all. He added that according to Dr. Gallup, 95% of the Americans were not for the State Department and to regard as representative of American interests a body which has behind it only 5% of all Americans was quite impossible. . . .

"The State Department, M. Andre Philip then proposed, should be told first to achieve unity among its own leaders before applying for any recognition. From reliable American newspaper reports, he could announce that Mr. Cordell Hull did not get along well with Mr. Sumner Welles and did not like Mr. Adolf Berle; Mr. Sumner Welles did not like Mr. Hull and Mr. Berle; and Mr. Berle liked only himself. . . ."

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