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...London, British and Gaullist representatives worked toward an agreement to transfer civil affairs in liberated French areas to Gaullist control, as soon as the military situation allows. In the background was the understanding that the U.S. would approve that kind of an agreement, so long as Washington does not have to come right out and say that it has recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation as the Provisional Government of France...
...week's end, Charles de Gaulle flew back to Algiers. He and his associates seemed pleased with themselves, talked confidently of impending gains for the Gaullists. London expected negotiations to begin immediately between the British Government and the Gaullist Government for some new and broadened form of recognition.* Out of all this loomed a possible solution: Britain would give De Gaulle's Government the kind of realistic recognition it wanted; the U.S. would then accept an accomplished fact and climb aboard the bandwagon...
...last the General appeared, his tall figure towering above everyone, his face taut and set. The bishop and the subprefect greeted him. The townsfolk trailed him to the park. There, bareheaded under a Tricolor mounted with the Gaullist Cross of Lorraine, flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes, Charles de Gaulle said; "We will fight by the side of our Allies. . . . Our victory will be a victory of a free people. . . ." Then he sang La Marseillaise with his countrymen...
...went back to Britain. He left behind, in one corner of France, a new Government. With no apparent objections from the Allied High Command, which had its own administrative setup, Algiers had appointed François Coulet and Colonel Pierre de Chevigné administrators of liberated Normandy. With these Gaullist officials, Charles de Gaulle left instructions for the restoration of the republican regime. More than ever, the General was sure that he was France...
Frenchmen heard the final contrast between the leader of Vichy, Marshal Pétain, and the leader in exile, General de Gaulle. The Old Man of Vichy, magnificent only in his consistency, begged his countrymen to ignore Allied or Gaullist commands, and to obey the Germans lest Nazi reprisal fall on France. General de Gaulle, shunned until the last moment, instructed them to heed "the French Government" (i.e., his own), and said: "France, overwhelmed . . . but never conquered, is on her feet to take part. . . . The simple, sacred duty is to fight...