510 FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1942, VOLUME II

after his return from London. Tixier has informed the Department that his
trip to England convinced him that General de Gaulle is the only possible
representative of the French Resistance Movement both in France and abroad
and that it was his hope that the Movement could be strengthened as a national
movement of French resistance. According to Mr. Tixier's account, representatives
of the principal labor resistance movement in France had sent representatives
to London to confer with General de Gaulle and to accept him as the head
of French resistance, civil and military, under certain specified conditions.
These conditions which the General is said to have accepted are in general
as follows:

 1. A declaration by General de Gaulle that he is the enemy of any regime
of personal power; in other words, that he is against dictators.
 2. A declaration that the internal resistance of France is organized by
the democratic people of France and that General de Gaulle realizes if he
wishes to collaborate and represent all elements of French resistance, both
external and internal, that he is a full participant of a democratic France
for that country after the war.
 3. A declaration by the General that his power was only provisional and
that after the war if he is in such a position of power he will not hesitate
to return that power to the French people and call a national assembly along
established lines to decide the future of France.

 In communicating this decision of the General to the Department, Tixier
asked whether it would be possible to issue some further official statement
in the name of the American Government, giving encouragement to the Free
French Movement under General de Gaulle, since various Free French elements
had been at a loss to understand why this ' had not been done. He was informed
that the policy of this Government had been and would continue to be to give
the broadest possible encouragement to all elements resisting aggression
and at the moment, since the war was in progress, this encouragement has
been given on military lines. Mr. Tixier then went on to say that the declarations
as set forth above which General de Gaulle had agreed to make, had not yet
been made since the timing of them was dependent upon the results of Tixier's
conversations in Washington. When he was asked for an explanation of why
the two subjects were related, he said that naturally General de Gaulle would
be influenced by the importance which the American Government attached to
the acceptance by the labor syndicates in France of General de Gaulle as
leader, but Tixier was not willing to pursue the point that General de Gaulle
in accepting to become the national leader of French resistance had undertaken
to issue ~the statements, as stated had been agreed with the labor syndicates.