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President Roosevelt said that even talk of a civil administration for France must wait until more of France is freed. But:

In London, British and Gaullist representatives worked toward an agreement to transfer civil affairs in liberated French areas to Gaullist control, as soon as the military situation allows. In the background was the understanding that the U.S. would approve that kind of an agreement, so long as Washington does not have to come right out and say that it has recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation as the Provisional Government of France.

At Allied Supreme Headquarters, newsmen learned that 230 Committee representatives would soon arrive in liberated France, act as liaison men and governors under Supreme Headquarters control.

At Algiers, the Committee authorized its representatives in freed France to: 1) publish laws and decrees for their zones; 2) exercise the right of pardon, symbolic of the highest State authority, useful for freeing patriots and resisters jailed by the Germans or by Vichymen.

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