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Tired and rather haggard, General Georges Catroux, Fighting French emissary to the North African government of General Henri Honoré Giraud, arrived in London last week and registered as usual at Claridge's. Within an hour he had bathed, changed and with a bulging briefcase left in a four-year-old Buick flying the French tricolor to see his leader, General Charles de Gaulle. Behind him lay two weeks of conferences in Algiers; before him, perhaps, a solution at last of the differences which had long divided the French...
...Friend Lost? General Catroux had a problem. His conferences in Algiers with General Giraud had been intended to lay a basis for uniting the two French factions. The stage had been set for De Gaulle's coming to Algiers. Then, at the eleventh hour, a message signed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower had requested De Gaulle to postpone his visit...
...soothe touchy, egoistic General de Gaulle, to explain once more the harsh realities of North Africa, was General Catroux's problem. As mediator between De Gaulle and Giraud, astute General Catroux at times had taken on greater stature than either of the two leaders. Certainly he understood some things that his chief...
...long-awaited negotiations between the Fighting French, backed by Britain, and General Henri Giraud, backed by the U.S., began in North Africa last week. In the preliminaries, the Fighting French were represented by able General Georges Catroux, commander in Syria and Lebanon. But De Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, announced in a broadcast to Occupied France that he himself would soon leave London to meet and confer with that "great soldier and noble figure," General Henri Honore Giraud. Together, said De Gaulle, "we will seek and find means of assuring that the French Empire shall be one Empire, that French...
Within an hour after Fighting Frenchman Georges Catroux arrived in Algiers last week (see col. 1), the Giraud Government announced the dismissal of Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a French industrialist (peanut oil) who had taken a devious but potent hand in North African affairs...