Evening star., 1944-07-07
De Gau||e, Roosevelt
Confer; French Chief
Predicts Nazi Defeat
Visiting General Sure
Of Germons' Expulsion
From Homeland in IA
By JOSEPH H, BAIRD.

Gen. Charles de Gaulle sat
down with President Roosevelt
in the White House today for
the first Of several talks which
are expected to smooth out diff
f1cultieS in administering liber-
ated French territory and insure
French-American cooperation
in the final defeat of the Ger
mans, whom the general earlier
predicted would be booted"
from French soil by the end of
this year.
Before going to the White House,
Gen. de Gaulle, in statements to
French civil and military leaders,
predicted the resurgence of France
as a great military and imperial
power, gave high praise to the
United States for re-equiping the
force of 100000 French soldiers in
North Africa and asserted fatty that
the last German will be killed, cap
tured or driven from the soil of
France before the end of 1914.
The general, who arrived here by
plane late Yesterday from Algiers,
went to the White House at noon for
private talk with the President be-
fore attending luncheon in his
honor given by Mr.. Roosevelt.
The French leader made his
predictions in speech delivered to
the staffs of the French missions
here at the home of the French dele
gate, Henri Hoppenot, 1929 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV.
Places Wreath at Arlington.
Earlier, he had gone to Arlington
National Cemetery to place a wreath
on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in memory of the American dead in
the World War
The President told his Friday
morning press conference his talks
with Gen. de Gaulle will cover a
great many things, but will not in
clude any discussion of possible
recognition for the French National
Committee of Liberation.
The President said today's talks
probably will deal with the under
ground movement within France.
particularly southern France. This
government has good deal of in
formation of its own on the subject,
he said
Mr.. Roosevelt said the question of
recognition of the French commit
tee did not come in during the Lon
don talks, either-an obvious ref
erence to Gen. De Gaulles recent
conversation with the British gov
eminent.
Paints Bright French Picture.
With approximately 100 members
of the French Official colony in
Washington surrounding him, Gen.
de Gaulle painted a glowing picture
Of the future of France.
Praising the solidarity of the
Allies and expressing appreciation
for the military aid now being given
France by the United Ste tes, Gen.
De Gaulle observed:
THE present Is full of difficulties,
but 1t is very comforting to U.S."
Then he went on to predict with
assurance that Germany would be
defeated and France liberated en-
tirely by the end of this year.
French Will Solve Problems.
Turning to the future of France,
he said his country had not aligned
itself with any one ally, but was
depending on its own efforts to work
out its national salvation.
An immense majority of the peo-
pie in France, he said, agree on the
necessity that France again must
be great. France knows, he added,
that 1t must be great or disappear.
In another talk a short time later
at the French Military Mission. 1859
r street NV, where he was greeted
by Gen. Auguste Brosse de St.
Daidier, chief of the mission, and
Admiral Raymond Fenard, ranking
French naval of1icer here, Gen. de
Gaulle again predicted q resurgence
OF French military glory and praised
(see DE GAULLE, Page A-zJ