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(Untitled), 22 Jul 1941

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/41/35-36

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on meetings with General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French], General de Larminat [Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa (later Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)] and Major- General Edward Spears [Head of Spears Mission, Syria and the Lebanon]; Free French reject Syrian armistice terms and threaten to break alliance with Britain then renegotiations end in agreement.

Dates

  • Creation: 22 Jul 1941

Conditions Governing Access

From the File:

Open

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

T 427

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