Word: gaullismes
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This hard fact dominated last week's parleys in Algiers, at which Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honore Giraud hammered out the mold of a new, united France. Through De Gaullism the people of France struck a blow for themselves and a blow against secret diplomacy. Neither General Giraud, whose authority in North Africa had been recognized by the U.S. and Great Britain while De Gaulle fretted in London, nor U.S. Minister Robert D. Murphy, who has a distaste for both De Gaulle and De Gaullism, dared to flout their will...
...sticky atmosphere, in which anything could happen, cleared suddenly. The impossible became a fact. After three hours behind closed doors, the seven conferees announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee...
...Winston Churchill may also have had something to say. Clearly London and Washington were pleased over the agreement in Algiers. But to broad-shouldered, ingratiating Bob Murphy, whose inclinations - and those of many of his operatives - are toward the Best People and not the People, the victory of De Gaullism was a sharp defeat...
...Christian Bullitt, later Councillor of Embassy at Vichy, Minister Murphy had helped to organize the fifth column that eased the way for the Allied North African landings. The connections he established then made it difficult for him to form unbiased judgments. He erred in underestimating the strength of De Gaullism, and therefore the strength of De Gaulle. He erred in supposing that even an imprisoned people could be ignored in the choice of their leaders. Perhaps he supposed that General Catroux could be weaned from support of De Gaulle. Now he appeared to be siding with the Giraudists against "indiscriminate...
...approving the union in Algiers, the U.S. would make a measure of amends for an enigmatic foreign policy that had troubled its own people, lost the confidence of many an ally. The victory of De Gaullism would have tremendous significance to the patriots of Occupied Europe, to whom expediency has been a disturbing policy...