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...Deeds. Precisely opposite conclusions can be drawn from what the Gaullist Government has actually done to date. Examples: a harsh, clearly authoritarian press law would certainly deprive France, at least for an interim, of anything like a free press; a sane, clearly democratic .election law would provide step-by-step elections, from towns to provinces to all France, as Allied troops liberate the departements...
Europe's smaller nations-Belgium, The Netherlands, et al-which had their own plans, felt that they had been ignored. Gaullist France, never willing to accept a place with "small nations," was also to be heard from. And so were the Germans...
...marble Algiers mansion General Henri Giraud, Allied protege, waited vainly for Allied help. He had not "accepted" General Charles de Gaulle's decree removing him as Commander in Chief. Now word came that the Gaullist Government had retired him, at full pay to the "reserve command list." Old Soldier Giraud saw that the fight was lost. To his troops he bade a dignified farewell: "Men pass, but France is eternal...
...prisoners' dock in a narrow Algiers courtroom. They were servants of Vichy-the officers and guards of a concentration camp in North Africa, now indicted and on trial for murder and torture. A. P. Correspondent Relman Morin described them as they looked in the Gaullist courtroom...
Moscow Conference. Subsequently, on Dec. 15, the U.S.-British-Russian-Gaullist Allied Control Commission (then called Advisory Council for Italy) recommended to the Allied military command that the Moscow decision should "promptly" be carried out, agreed on the Salerno-Bari line of demarcation, the three provisos. Reasons: the Allies always intended to grant Italian rule in areas sufficiently remote from the battle zone; they wanted to release AMG personnel for other duties; Russian and other criticism of AMG was too hot to ignore. Finally, said grey-haired, British Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFarlane, it was a good thing...