Word: gaullism
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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...
This was a sharp about face in advices to the White House and State Department from Algiers. Heretofore Washington had been told that Gaullism did not symbolize French resistance, that De Gaulle was difficult and perhaps dangerous. Could it be that Minister Murphy was being recalled to explain...
...French leader will talk over details of equipping the French Army of liberation now forming in North Africa. But General Giraud's trip to America had inevitable political effects. Followers of De Gaulle saw it as a slight to their leader, another mark of official U.S. antipathy to Gaullism, another tactless act that would alienate the French people from...
Certain Allied Interests. As supervisor of civil affairs under General Dwight Eisenhower, who, by his own admission, is no politician, U.S. Minister Robert Murphy plays a pretty free hand. He has consistently misinformed Washington, and perhaps himself, on the strength and significance of De Gaullism. When Washington this week announced that General Giraud would soon visit America, it was further evidence of where official U.S. sympathy...
...hard fact is that DeGaullism, as the only uncompromising channel of French resistance, represents the French masses in the homeland and in the Empire. Charles de Gaulle, as its leader, is the only leader who can fairly claim to represent the French people, pending a free election. De Gaullism's basic strength has beaten Robert Murphy before (TIME, June 14). Its pressure last week forced the resignation of Pierre Boisson, the ex-Vichyite Governor General of French West Africa, who had been stubbornly supported by the U.S. If U.S. policy continues to ignore the fact and the strength...