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...General Henri Honoré Giraud, the Allies' High Commissioner of North Africa, predicted last week that the Tunisian campaign will end this month...
...Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, who spent two years preparing the defenses of Bizerte, estimated in London that the city would fall by May 25. Tunis, he thought, should fall...
Tired and rather haggard, General Georges Catroux, Fighting French emissary to the North African government of General Henri Honoré Giraud, arrived in London last week and registered as usual at Claridge's. Within an hour he had bathed, changed and with a bulging briefcase left in a four-year-old Buick flying the French tricolor to see his leader, General Charles de Gaulle. Behind him lay two weeks of conferences in Algiers; before him, perhaps, a solution at last of the differences which had long divided the French...
...radio voice crackled in French ears: "Listen to the thunder of the guns and planes. Do you hear, M. Laval?" The voice was reading a letter broadcast to M. Laval from General Henri Giraud in Algiers. Cried the voice: "You say we are traitors. But it is we who will save France...
...diplomatic source in London indicated that a momentous decision on De Gaulle's future status had been reached during Eden's Washington conferences. The Fighting French apparently were not aware of it. They said that a settlement with General Henri Giraud could not be delayed "without serious disadvantages." They were plainly but politely furious...