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...Change. The Algiers regime stood on its record, and on its plan for returning liberated France to constitutional democracy (TIME, Dec. 13). Admiral Jean François Darlan, the puppet and symbol of Allied expediency, was dead; General Henri Honoré Giraud, the later instrument of expediency, was in eclipse. Their alternative and countersymbol, General de Gaulle, was no longer the sole and dominant symbol of Fighting France. The Liberation Committee and its corollary advisory Consultative Assembly had to some extent overshadowed him. All responsible observers in Algiers, including some who had opposed De Gaulle, now recognized the fact that...
...majority speaks for active resistance groups. The spokesman for resistance is a member called René Ferrière (who for security reasons cannot be photographed or described). Ferrière calls himself "le français du trottoir"-the Frenchman in the street. When he arrived in Algiers, he was as unaware as most Frenchmen of the confusion there. He had expected much: "After two days," he said, "I was completely bewildered, cried all night and intended to return to France the next day." He has stayed long enough to see the leading men of Vichy cleaned...
...Farmer François Theron hates baboons. Some 1 ,000 of the big monkeys live on his sheep farm in South Africa's Cape province. Says he: "They'll rip off a sheep's leg for breakfast and leave the animal...
...Curie, newly arrived in London from the U.S., got down to work as a new private in the Corps Volontaires Françaises-the WAC of Free France...
Soup Stew. In Manhattan, harried Restaurateur Raymond Andrieux, trying to please everybody, changed his Vichyssoise to De Gaulloise, then to Giraudoise, finally to Françoise, distractedly announced: "If this proves unsatisfactory I shall call it Cordell Hulloise...