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Bevan leaned from the charge and planted a banderilla in the bull's shoulder: "Does the Prime Minister realize that we are broadcasting to France every night asking them to sabotage, and this officer commends those who shoot Frenchmen who are obeying our instructions?" The bull never even turned his head; no one could tell whether he even felt the sting...
...British troops invaded French North Africa. The world's hopes rose: this was the western Allies' first direct land blow toward Axis Europe. The hopes of Frenchmen soared: this was a blow for the liberation of France...
...Union. Giraud once said: "I am above politics." But by last fortnight he was deep in politics. In a speech welcoming unity on his terms (TIME, March 22) he answered obliquely a Fighting French memorandum which proposed the basis of an operational union. In that speech Giraud promised liberated Frenchmen that they could, if they chose, revive the Third Republic. He announced the abrogation of Vichy's anti-Jewish laws. Last week posters portraying the weary features of Marshal Henri Petain were torn from the walls of public buildings. Not all traces of Vichy were expunged, but there...
...North and West Africa); and of the audible political factions inside France. He has strong support in Britain, where he has worked closely with British officials. A Hyde Park comic drew laughs last week by purposefully mixing up Free, Fighting and Flirtatious French; but to the British people and Frenchmen imprisoned in their homeland De Gaulle is respected as a gallant fighter who carried high the French tricolor when other Frenchmen faltered, compromised...
...Murphy and Eisenhower, Vichy and Pétain were firmly entrenched in high places. And Darlan was in Algiers, visiting a sick son. Eisenhower then made his famed deal with Darlan, persuaded a furious Giraud to serve under the Admiral, and calmly dismissed the "small differences of ideas" among Frenchmen which these arrangements aggravated...