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DONE BY ALLIED MISSION WAY PREPARED FOR AFRICAN LANDINGS. NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRO-ALLY ; FRENCHMEN. LONDON, November 12. A special mission headed by General Eisenhower’s second in command, Major-General Clark, had already negotiated with pro-Ally French leaders in North Africa several months before the Allied landings. This has been disclosed by General Eisenhower. He said the mission consisted of three British officers and seven. American officers. The mission, which met In a lonely house near the coast, did not escape adventures. On one occasion it was surprised by the police, but French officers managed to hold the intruders while the Allied officers got away. It was due to the work of the mission, General Eisenhower stated, that the resistance of the French Army was not greater than it was and that the landing parties got ashore when they did.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 3
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