Prime Minister Mackenzie King to the Secretary of State
Québec City, August 22, 1943.
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Dear Mr. Secretary: I am sending you, herewith, a copy of our draft letter to the Delegate in Canada of the French Committee of National Liberation, about which I think I spoke to you yesterday. I have given a copy to Mr. Churchill and am sending one to the President.
Yours very sincerely,
W. L. MACKENZIE KING
[Enclosure]
Draft Note
Ottawa, August 6, 1943.
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Draft Note to the French Delegate in Ottawa
Sir, I have the honour to refer to your note of June 11 with which you transmitted the text of the Declaration adopted at Algiers on June 3 by which the French Committee of National Liberation was established.
[Here follows, with minor editorial differences and one difference in phrasing, the text of the Canadian statement on this subject released on August 26, 1943.]
Accept [etc.]