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Above the shouts of applause and through the weaving mazes of power politics, Frenchmen discerned one fact clearly: so long as the Gaullist Government pursued a policy of friendship to Russia, it could count on Communist support at home, Soviet support for its empire...
...Government. It planned to expand its organization throughout Paris and the provinces, to publish a daily and a weekly paper, to oppose lynchings and private executions of the kind carried out by the Patriotic Militia. Its mottoes: "De Gaulle our President"; "De Gaulle and Order." Most of the Gaullist Cabinet members were reported to have joined the France au Combat group...
...Gaullist once explained De Gaulle's agreement with the Communists: until France was liberated, they would work together; after that all bets would be off. It began to look as if the bets were...
...Then the Gaullist administration moved to absorb the F.F.I, into the Regular Army, and General Joseph Pierre Koenig, Gaullist Commander in Chief of the F.F.I., ordered the Paris Maquis to give up their arms. The National Council of Resistance agreed that the F.F.I, should be under War Ministry control...
...Left does not like the trend. But the bulk of the F.F.I, still supports General de Gaulle, and Gaullist Regular Army men make a policy of appreciating F.F.I. services. Last week, while Colonel Rol-Tanguy was being whittled down, another F.F.I, colonel, Jacquot, received a medal and a Gallic kiss, for gallantry in action, from the French First Army's General Delattre de Tassigny. Nevertheless the F.F.I, remains wary. Last week they complained about lack of weapons for Maquis still fighting Germans in western France. Growled the Communist Humanité: "Is that fifth-column work in Paris...