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...mass of Frenchmen is concerned, the honeymoon is over in dealings with the Americans. Those who retain a lingering faith in America as a champion of the oppressed pray that the U.S. will retrieve the political situation 'before it is too late.' Distrust springs from the 'new collaboration' of French officials (lately pro-Vichy and pro-German) with American officers...
...This end will be attained by union in war of all Frenchmen fighting side-by-side with all Allies...
...reference to Frenchmen who aided the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, were imprisoned in North Africa by Vichy, are yet to be freed...
...about Admiral Jean François Darlan's assassin. He was 20-year-old Bonnier de la Chapelle, a member of the French patriotic youth organization Chantiers de Jeunesse, which aided Allied landings in North Africa but became bitter when Collaborationist Darlan emerged as chief of what many Frenchmen considered a Fascist North African regime. De la Chapelle had no connection with the Comte de Paris and his Monarchist organization. Instead, the Monarchists may have hoped to get power through Darlan...
...Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...