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ALGIERS--General Henri Honore Giraud, French African leader, repudiated in the name of France today all laws and decrees imposed on the country since the Armistico, including those providing for racial discrimination, and promised Frenchmen a post-war government of their own choosing under the laws of the Third Republic...
...slow trend toward the liberalization of General Henri Honore Giraud's North African Government (TIME, March 8) moved another step forward last week. In an order repudiating two anti-Jewish decrees, the Genera declared: "A decree signed in Vichy is not valid in North Africa." According to French reports from Dakar this week, all jailed De Gaullist and pro-Allied sympathizers have been freed. In the wind were negotiations for a settlement with the Fighting French, further decrees abolishing all Vichy laws...
...turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
There were other small signs that U.S. and British pressure was slowly improving the complexion of General Henri Honoré Giraud's North African Government...
...General Giraud fired pro-Vichyite General Henri Jean Etienne Boisseau, whose department of Oran had remained a hotbed of hostility to the Allies long after military resistance was quelled...