Word: catroux
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...contact with the French underground, and Rene Massigli, veteran diplomat. For Giraud: Jean Monnet, able businessman, well known in Washington and London, and General Alphonse Joseph Georges, No. 2 in military command during 1940's lost Battle of France. As seventh man and balance wheel: tactful General Georges Catroux, chief intermediary in arranging the Algiers conference...
...Madrid and the Axis reported that Churchill conferred in Gibraltar with Eisenhower, Alexander, Montgomery, Catroux and Giraud. Later the same sources said Churchill had gone to Algiers...
...leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united France...
...preside over it alternately. It has two De Gaullists, René Massigli and André Philip, and two Giraudists, Jean Monnet and General Alphonse-Joseph Georges (seven stars). No. 2 French general at the war's outbreak, who escaped from France last week. The seventh man is General Catroux. He was the intermediary chiefly responsible for bringing De Gaulle and Giraud together. Now he will bear the burden of keeping them together...
Despite some spectacular manifestations of support, French North Africa was not ready to fall into De Gaulle's arms. A visit now would divert the energies of generals absorbed in the climactic phase of the Tunisian campaign. Previously, and in vain, Catroux had pointed out these things to General de Gaulle. Higher and harsher authorities finally...