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North Africa's jail doors creaked open last week for 1,300 political prisoners. Men of 28 different nationalities were freed-Czechs, Russians, Poles, De Gaullist Frenchmen and other allies of the United Nations. Still jailed were more than 5,000; their release was promised within two months...
...last week," said U.S. Minister Robert Murphy, "marked a definite departure from the Vichy form of Government." The definite departure amounted to a reorganization of General Henri Honoré Giraud's administration, giving supreme power to the old soldier, but also opening a chink through which Fighting Frenchmen might some day enter...
...Police Commissioner Esquerre, who gave the Allies lists of Frenchmen who had been collaborating with the Axis Armistice Commissions...
...Frenchmen siding with the British and U.S. forces in Martinique, thrown into jail by the German-inspired French leaders, have been released by pressure from the two governments and pro-fascist leaders have been replaced by men more sympathetic to the United Nations cause, according to Mayer...
...illustration of the present antidemocratic trend in the Morocco regime is furnished by Vichy's Legion of Veterans. . . . Ninety percent of the Frenchmen who joined . . . believed it a legitimate veterans' organization. Since then they have found that it is anti-Allied, antiliberal, antiSemitic, anti-Freemason and pro-Vichy and pro-Axis. . . . The legion, by one means or another, controls the lives of thousands of people despite the American landings...