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...Allies, moving slowly toward unanimous recognition of the Committee of Liberation at Algiers, the French last week made plain their own unity. Wrote Henri Giraud to Charles de Gaulle...
...long last the French leaders in Algiers completed a formula for unity.. The final, seemingly immovable obstacle between General Charles de Gaulle and Gen eral Henri Giraud had been the issue of Army control and reorganization. Now the Committee of Liberation pushed aside the obstacle...
...leaders were more concerned with the war's trend, and in their concern De Gaulle won a signal diplomatic victory-still without benefit of tact. France's united front was a bid for recognition and participation in any Allied peace negotiations with Italy. Said Commissioner of Information Henri Bonnet: "I hope [the new accord] will have a good effect on ... the U.S. and Britain. . . . Nonrecognition will not prevent us from becoming stronger...
...military views reappeared in France. The debacle of 1870 led the disgusted French to put their faith in those who, like Foch, were fanatical believers in the "offensive at all costs." But Bazaine's faith in the defensive, says Author Guedalla, became the faith of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain-the old man through whom "the abject philosophy of salvation by surrender . . . prevailed" in 1940, who "consummated a surrender far beyond the basest imputations of Bazaine's accusers...
Franklin Roosevelt, who dearly loves a baseball metaphor, came up with one of his choicest. In Martinique, pro-Vichy Admiral Georges Robert had given way to anti-Vichy Henri-Etienne Hoppenot. Said the President: We waited it out and we got a base on balls...