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...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...
Then came words that might prove to be the clue: "We will accord the honor of independence to the Philippines in the course of the current year. . . . We shall take measures envisaging participation of native populations in the Government to an extent commensurate with their ability. . . . We intend to realize this state of affairs as early as possible in Java . . . and Burma...
...said New York City's Herald Tribune last week. The "great emotion" soared in French hearts when General Charles de Gaulle put a name to the future: the Fourth Republic, successor to the unhappy Third (1870-1940). It might be months before the nations would accord the new Republic formal recognition (at week's end the U.S. and Britain had still not recognized formally the new French Committee of National Liberation as trustee for France), but already Frenchmen at home and abroad looked up. Said De Gaulle: "Fight with me and we will establish French sovereignty; fight with...
...Vichyites still in high places in North Africa) ; 2) 'it should be based on the real sovereignty of France and not on a fictitious sovereignty'; 3) it should be created in harmony with the French masses - 'We must not build in Algeria something not in accord with the people of France.' " The two generals set up a seven-man committee to be the central power. Generals Giraud and de Gaulle will preside over it alternately. It has two De Gaullists, René Massigli and André Philip, and two Giraudists, Jean Monnet and General Alphonse-Joseph...
...this movie, which deliberately twisted fact and his tory to put the rosiest of all possible lights on U.S.-Soviet relations, the way to improve those relations? Was it fair and honest to present such a distortion of momentous events to the U.S. people as final truth? In unusual accord, critics, historians, columnists answered "No." Only all-out praise came from Communists. The New Masses thought it "just about a perfect film . . . [which] strips away the veils of illusions and lies." Daily Worker Columnist Mike Gold found it "about the best propaganda picture I've ever seen . . . patriotic, fearless...