1944 January General de Gaulle's visits with Churchill who has been recuperating in Marrakesh after returning from Tehran. After a review of French troops with de Gaulle the British party flies to Gibraltar where they board the battleship King George V for Plymouth. (Churchill Center)

Exiled Czech President Benes also visited with Churchill while he was in Marrakesk and expressed his belief that Russia would have come to the aid of Czechoslovakia at the time of Munich and that he could reach an accommodation with Stalin on the border between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia after the war, which he thought would end this year.