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...General Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee, worked late, his sunken cheeks grey with fatigue, his deep-sunk eyes blazing with anger at "the plot." The existence of "the plot"-to build up British influence in the Levant at French expense-was taken for granted even by sobersided Frenchmen, although any such sinister motives were hotly denied by British Minister Sir Edward Spears and U.S. Diplomatic Agent George Wadsworth...
...State, failed to make a scheduled broadcast. That caused a spate of reports, some buttressed by "informed circles" in France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa: Pétain...
...even André Marty represents no real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...
Anger & Pride. Patriotic Frenchmen, friendly to the U.S. and Britain, were suddenly noting the decline, both in French Africa and in Metropolitan France, of British-American prestige. Resentment toward the U.S., originally born of failure to deal harshly with Vichyites in North Africa, was growing. Gaullism was a spreading fire...
Beneath such pinpricks lay serious grievance. Said a French underground Assembly delegate: "I have heard a member of the American Diplomatic Corps here say that we French are now only little boys. That is a view we cannot accept. To Frenchmen, you Americans are still the Americans of 1918. But Americans no longer regard us as the victorious Frenchmen of 1918. Yet we are the same France today. If this paradox is recognized, we can resume the friendly relationship to which we aspire. Today Frenchmen are suffering-and so we are very sensitive." A French resistance leader, recently arrived...