Anglo-American Policy towards the Free French
This book examines the development of the tiny dissident movement that was Free France in 1940 into a broad-based, popularly supported provisional government. This metamorphosis was to a large extent dependent upon Allied support. Therefore this book disc
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Anglo-American Policy towards the Free French G. E. Maguire
Lecturer in British and American Studies University of Paris XII - Val de Marne
in association with PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
First published in Great Britain 1995 by
MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world This book is published in the St Antony's Series General editor: Alex Pravda A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-1-349-39408-1 DOI 10.1057/9780230371644
ISBN 978-0-230-37164-4 (eBook)
First published in the United States of America 1995 by
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010
ISBN 978-0-312-12710-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Maguire G. E. Anglo-American policy towards the free French / G. E. Maguire. p. cm. - (SI. Antony's series) "In association with SI. Antony's College, Oxford." Includes bibliographical references and index. I.World War, 1939-1 945-Diplomatic history. 2. France-Foreign relations-Great Britain. 3. Great Britain-Foreign relations-France. 4. United States-Foreign relations-France. 5. France-Foreign relations-United States. I. Title. II. Series: SI. Antony's series (SI. Martin's Press) D752.M34 1995 940.53'2-dc20 95-11453 CIP © G. E. Maguire 1995 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995 978-0-333-63239-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 10 04
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This book is lovingly dedicated to the memory of my father
Thomas William Maguire, 1930-87 and of my niece
Sharon Maureen Ford, 1981-86
Contents Acknowledgements
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De Gaulle in London and the Fonnation of Free France, 1940-42
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Free France and the United States, 1940-42
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Lebanon and Syria
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North Africa, 1940-42
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5 Unity? 1943-44
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The Anglo-Americans and the Resistance in France
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The Financial Link
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8 The Provisional Government of France, 1944-45 9
'Our Mutual Headache': Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle
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Notes
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Bibliography and Manuscript Sources
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Index
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Acknow ledgements The list of persons and institutions who have assisted me in this research is quite long. To begin with, in Paris, I would like to thank the staff of the Archives Nationales - and particularly the section contemporaine - who gave me numberless special authorisations to consult officially closed papers and private arch
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