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Article: Revealed: why Churchill kept De Gaulle in the dark.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2002
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Byline: CHRIS MILLAR
WINSTON Churchill and US President Franklin D Roosevelt decided to tell Charles de Gaulle about the Normandy invasion only five days before D-Day - such was their dislike and mistrust of the French leader. Secret telegrams between the British Prime Minister and the President - revealed for the first time today - give a graphic account of the progress of Operation Overlord - D-Day's codename - and Churchill's attempts to bring De Gaulle "into line".
On 1 June, 1944, five days before D-Day, Churchill wrote to Roosevelt recommending De Gaulle should be told about Overlord before it happened, adding: "Otherwise it may become a very great ...