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...choose between two duties, always take that one whose fulfillment is the most brutal and the most difficult. You can be quite sure that it is the right one." General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme was sacked by Vichy for continuing the fight in Somaliland. Twelve-times-wounded Colonel Philibert Collet escaped from Syria to join De Gaulle last...
Colonel Philibert Collet's anti-Vichy Circassians, who descend from the Russians that went from the Caucasus to Turkey 80 years ago, found themselves blazing away at a detachment of fellow Circassians. After an exchange of appropriate Circassian signals, the Vichy Circassians came forth and fell on colorful Colonel Collet's Circassians' necks. Two bodies of Foreign Legionnaires drew beads on each other, but this mistake, too, was soon put right. After four days Kisswe capitulated...
Also helping the Allies will be colorful General Philibert Collet, who escaped into Trans-Jordan recently with bloodthirsty detachments of Circassian and Ismaili tribesmen. Vichy authorities had suspected him of De Gaullist leanings and dispatched him away from the border to Damascus. Mme. Collet took a room in a Damascus hotel in her husband's name and a junior officer was stationed there to answer phone calls until she and the General could make their getaway. At the frontier, guarded by quick-firing Senegalese, Mme. Collet stepped on the gas of her husband's car, hooted the horn...
Cracked colorful General Collet: "That was surely the first time a man, soon to be condemned to death, received an official salute...
...grudge because it was his unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife is English and whose spirit is French but tough, last week went over to the British and Free French cause, leading with him some of his wiry Circassian cavalrymen...