General de Gaulle goes to England
Le 3th June 1944,, THE General de Gaulle agrees to go to Great Britain to respond to Winston Churchill's invitation, while in Algiers, the French Committee of National Liberation declared itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF). He left Algiers by plane in the evening for England via Morocco. Arriving at Northolt at 6:00 a.m. on June 4, de Gaulle responded at 13:30 p.m. to Churchill's lunch invitation in his armored train near Portsmouth. It was at this time that he was informs of the outline of the Overlord planIn the afternoon, Churchill and de Gaulle visited General Eisenhower at his headquarters at Southwick House.
He was also invited by his hosts to record a statement for the BBC, the text of which had been prepared and written by Eisenhower himself. This proposal, in which French authority was not even mentioned, provoked de Gaulle's anger and a severe argument with Churchill. As a result, de Gaulle refused to deliver the speech, took leave of his interlocutors, left SHAEF HQ, and returned to London. On the evening of June 6, he was able to deliver his own famous speech on the BBC:
“The supreme battle is engaged…”