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...Marshal Pétain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
General Charles de Gaulle last week swept into full power. Out of the Liberation Committee went General Henri Honoré Giraud, former Committee Co-President, and three of his Committee appointees. For reasons as yet unclear, former Gaullist Defense Commissioner General Paul Legentilhomme also vacated his post. Simultaneously seven Gaullists entered the Committee's ranks. At week's end, the reconstituted group, facing up in Algiers to their first major problem since the coup, tackled Lebanese demands for independence with drastic and provocative action...
Algiers Today. The political scene in Algiers now has an almost unbroken Gaullist façade, by virtue of purge and new personnel. In the strongly Gaullist Consultative Assembly, which convened in Algiers last fortnight, only a four-man Communist bloc including firebrand André Marty may be a source of dissent...
...Commissariat. Thereby General Giraud won an argument for a military man to run what is in effect a civilian ministry of war. But General de Gaulle also won an argument for putting Army command under Committee authority. And Paul Legentilhomme, a St. Cyr military academy careerist, has been a Gaullist since 1940 and bears the scars of a wound inflicted by Vichyites in Syria...
...General Giraud was named commander in chief of all French forces, as the Allied High Command had insisted (TIME, July 5). This decision did away with the separate Gaullist and Giraudist armies...