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From Brazzaville, his capital in French Equatorial Africa, General Charles de Gaulle flew to Lebanon and Syria last week to congratulate his victorious troops. Resplendent in uniform, accompanied by his field general, Georges Catroux, Free Frenchman De Gaulle made a ceremonial entry into a Beirut decorated with many a Cross of Lorraine. In the street...
...Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, whom the Free French now call simply Le General, has a too-tall (6 ft. 4 in.) body, big hips, a small head and the undynamic appearance frequently found in big men. But he has the unique advantage of being the one Frenchman who knew what was wrong with the French Army...
When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
...newspaper-reading Frenchman could guess that the Abetz discussions were aimed at nothing less than total French "collaboration" in Germany's building of the "Eurafrica" of the future-possibly including the assistance of the French Navy and General Maxime Weygand's North African Army, now said to number as many as 300,000 men. Furthermore, a certain sympathy in Vichy for Germany's grandiose future schemes seemed far from unlikely. Said the Vichy-inspired Temps last week: "When one probes to the bottom of things it is evident that the present crisis reduces itself to the opposition...
Free. In Little Rock, a cop brought in a vagrant. "Who are you?" asked the desk sergeant. "I am a Free Frenchman," said the man. "You were a free Frenchman," corrected the sergeant...