Word: algerianness
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...Newest Allies. One clear reason for the spectacular Allied advance was the heroic determination of the troops Hitler had to stop. Almost unanimously, correspondents picked as their fighting favorites the French troops-Moroccan Goums, Senegalese infantrymen and Algerian riflemen serving under French officers and noncoms. Some of them had actually fought on opposite sides in the Fighting French-Vichy squabbles in Syria three years...
...beside the driver gravely touched his two-star cap. General Charles de Gaulle, Commander in Chief, had come to watch his countrymen redeem themselves in the fierce last round of the battle for Italy. For the Frenchmen and noncoms (if not for the dark Goums, shiny Senegalese and swarthy Algerian riflemen who fought with them) it was the start of the battle for France...
...even André Marty represents no real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...
This week, for the first time since June 1940, the voice of Metropolitan France will be heard. From the rostrum in a high-ceilinged chamber, long the home of the Algerian financial assembly, the first session of the French Provisional Consultative Assembly will be called to order in Algiers. Seated in semicircular rows ringing the rostrum, 84 men will represent France according to democratic parliamentary procedure, at least 40 of them representatives of the highly organized French underground itself. They will reflect all political hues, from Conservatives to Communists. They will speak for a renascent France...
...atmosphere in North Africa. But were not General Giraud's new powers just a trifle dictatorial? Well, said Murphy, backed up by his British colleague Harold Macmillan, they were not quite so dictatorial as they might seem. Possibly, Murphy said, General Giraud "might reinstitute the election of the Algerian Council" (a purely local affair). But that was about as far as the General would...