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Memorandum: Elements for Consideration in the French North African Situation

Date:

04.09.1942

Location:

Tunisia, אלג'יריה, ארצות הברית, ביזרט, מרוקו, צפון אפריקה, תוניס

Personality:

Weygand

Organization:

German Army, Goverment of Vichy, הצבא הבריטי, צבא איטליה, צבא צרפת

Archive:

Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Folder Number:

Robert D. Murphy papers: box 46 folder 1 a (folder 1 is divided in two) images Murphy.46.1a.4-26

Description

44 page combined memorandum, originally labeled SECRET, from within a folder of Robert Murphy’s office files labeled “Allied Operations Dec. 1941-July 1942”. Includes Table of Contents. Includes information from December 1941.

Notable headings: Summary of the Situation, Exceptional Measures, Attitude of the United States, French Africa as a Theater of Operations, Means Necessary for North Africa in Order to Resist German Aggression (nine sub-headings), Political Questions, Propaganda, Arab Policy, General Andre Giraud, Small Arms Supply, French Personalities Included in Movement, Present Military Situation in North Africa, Armament, Provisional Quotas for Imports into French North Africa