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From Washington last week came news which made no difference to Mme. Chideu, but made a great deal of difference to General Charles de Gaulle and his Liberation Committee. President Roosevelt's qualified recognition of the Gaullist Government included the unqualified admission that the Committee is the sole authority hereafter entitled to issue currency in France...
...endured by De Gaulle and his followers. They would make of France Resistant another quasi-Ally, like Italy, complete with AMG and ex-Fascist mayors converted from Fascism to Democracy since June 6. When the French punish such Vichyites as they can catch, the charge is made that the "Gaullists" are purging the "opposition" and intend to rivet a Gaullist dictatorship on France. If other Allied governments punished their traitors so, they would be praised for bringing "war criminals" to book...
Able, ruthless "Colonel Passy," boss of the Gaullist secret service and the Gaullist liaison with the Underground (TIME, May 29), took a new job: Chief of Staff under General Joseph Koenig, Commander of the French Forces of the Interior. "Passy" dropped his alias. "I have nothing to hide," he said. "My real name is Andre de Wavrin...
...Algiers, he found his ace economic brain-truster, urbane Herve Alphand, back from London after a successful conference with British officials. The British had reportedly agreed to: 1) transfer civil administration of liberated a.eas behind the battlefront to Gaullist commissioners; 2) recognize the Gaullist Committee's right to issue all currency in liberated France; 3) supply food to the liberated population...
When Coulet let Rochet wander off without punishment, hinted that he might be given a job elsewhere in liberated France, bitter-enders raged. But moderates, who had long since won the day in Gaullist councils, decided that Vichyites should be coolly but firmly judged. A high French official in Algiers said recently: "This talk of bumping off everybody who has been playing ball with Vichy, it is a lot of . . . how do you say it. . . bodewash!* C'est de la merde...