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...awkward, gangling lubber beside the driver gravely touched his two-star cap. General Charles de Gaulle, Commander in Chief, had come to watch his countrymen redeem themselves in the fierce last round of the battle for Italy. For the Frenchmen and noncoms (if not for the dark Goums, shiny Senegalese and swarthy Algerian riflemen who fought with them) it was the start of the battle for France...
...Fourth Republic. The Committee became a Cabinet, the Assembly a sort of Chamber of Deputies-though without the power to legislate: the Assembly could only advise. The symbolic power of Gaullism had triumphed over the doubts and fears of the U.S., of Britain, of a vocal minority of Frenchmen...
...Gaulle and the people of France might dispel some of the doubt. This fact is that De Gaulle the man does not amount to a great deal -now. The De Gaulle who counts is De Gaulle the symbol-the half-seen, half-known figure who to millions of Frenchmen personifies the French will to survive, to kill Germans, to lay Germany forever low, to restore France to greatness...
...immediate purposes of France and of most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
...Resistant France. Until invasion lifts the curtain, the many elements which make up French resistance-groups still bearing the old party names, saboteur bands, the maquis, the manifold underground press, millions & millions of individual Frenchmen-cannot be seen as a clear whole. But through the Assembly, through the Committee, and through Charles de Gaulle, resistant France constantly guides and limits the acts of the Algiers Government...