Word: catroux
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...decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud together again...
Under Amiable Pipe Smoke. For the past four months patient, shrewd Georges Catroux has been a go-between for his country's unity. As negotiator between De Gaulle and Giraud he made many a trip between Algiers and London before the two French leaders finally met. French men have known him as a many-sided, yet singleminded, person-a lover of Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles...
...Gaulle's opponents said he was trying to make himself master of the new Committee before the magic of his name waned. They said that even his Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Renè Massigli, and calm, friendly General Catroux were being alienated by his intransigence...
...cleared suddenly. The impossible became a fact. After three hours behind closed doors, the seven conferees announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee expanded its membership to 14, assigned portfolios...
...then made it difficult for him to form unbiased judgments. He erred in underestimating the strength of De Gaullism, and therefore the strength of De Gaulle. He erred in supposing that even an imprisoned people could be ignored in the choice of their leaders. Perhaps he supposed that General Catroux could be weaned from support of De Gaulle. Now he appeared to be siding with the Giraudists against "indiscriminate" treatment of former collaborationists. General de Gaulle rudely upset Minister Murphy's delicate balance of forces...