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Thin-lipped, five-starred General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commander in Syria and Lebanon, was the preconference intermediary. Catroux loves France, Siamese cats, fancy bodyguards. He admires De Gaulle, is a brilliant conversationalist and colonial administrator. He was expected this week in Algiers to start early negotiations with Giraud. It was also expected that he might wind up later with a high administrative post, possibly succeeding stubborn Charles Noguès, Resident General of French Morocco. If Giraud and De Gaulle get together, then true progress toward French unity will have been made...
ALFIERS--Gen. Henri Honore Giraud and Gen. George Catroux, Fighting French liaison officers, are discussing three possible forms of a provisional French unity government, it was disclosed authoritatively today...
Outspokenly anti-Vichy, anti-Axis Charles Brunei, intimate friend of Fighting French General Georges Catroux, was appointed head of Peyrouton's important Council of War Economy. A former mayor of Algiers, Brunei escaped arrest during a De Gaullist roundup last December only by virtue of his prestige. His son Jacques was in jail until last month. Out as propaganda secretary went pro-Axis Jean Rigaud, to be replaced by distinguished General Rene Michel Jules Joseph Chambe, a soldier and writer untainted by Axis collaboration...
General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commissioner in Syria, conferred with General Giraud last week. But the one really bright spot in this picture was the enthusiastic welcome accorded by General Giraud's Tunisian troops to General Jacques Leclerc's Fighting French forces...
Future. Darlan was a useful military tool. What he represents in political warfare is another question. "A monumental piece of effrontery" was the verdict of the Fighting French. General Georges Catroux, Fighting French High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, bitterly demanded that Darlan's power-grab "be ended quickly." He charged that there were grave dangers to Allied communication lines when "under control of a man like Darlan...