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...last week, that retreat had been checked. On the face of events, it even appeared that the U.S. had regained some of the lost moral and political ground. If so, the U.S. had in some measure to thank an essentially non-political soldier and Frenchman, General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa by grace of an assassin and the Allies...
...commanded the French troops in North Africa-but he did so under the resented direction and authority of Darlan. He loomed as the likeliest alternative to Darlan-but Darlan admitted no alternative while he lived. People in the U.S. and Great Britain had about decided to write off Henri Giraud...
Last week the Spartan old soldier stayed up beyond his usual prompt bedtime: 10 p.m. Not until the clocks in his colonnaded, white-walled Moorish home in Algiers pointed to 11:30 did General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa, lay down his pen. He had carefully studied a memorandum from the Fighting French. Just as carefully the General had studied out his answer. There were some points on which he and General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French were in agreement. On others-well, wise men move slowly...
ALGIERS--The French African Government tonight ordered all public pictures, posters, statements, signs and slogans relating to Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain removed starting tomorrow...
Following swiftly on Gen. Henri Girand's repudiation of all Vichy Statutes as affecting North Africa, the order also provided that postage stamps or other issues carrying Petain's picture of signature should be removed from circulation at once...