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Leclerc Over the Desert. Driving northward from interior Africa (the Chad) to threaten Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south...
Though De Gaullist guns thus disrupted Nazi preparations, Casablanca still managed to put up the stiffest of all resistance to the U.S. invasion. Foresighted George Patton shoved three tank columns ashore east and west of the sprawling city and hit first for an outlying reservoir. With that in his hands, he could cripple Casablanca if necessary. Soon parachutists seized the city's main airdrome and the tank force advanced...
...Vichy were quick to seize the political weapons the U.S. had given them. Broadcasting from London, General Charles de Gaulle called to French North African troops: "Forward! The great moment has come. Help our allies. Join them without reserve. Everywhere the enemy gasps and wavers." Vichy admitted a De Gaullist uprising at Casablanca, claimed to have overcome it, subsequently confessed that a battalion was still in revolt...
When the Vichyfrench were cleaned out of Syria last year, the British, assuming military control, handed over civil control to their De Gaullist allies. Britain's job was to prepare strategic Syria against the threat of Nazi invasion. Scores of new airdromes were built, 4,000 miles of highways repaired or constructed across the Syrian badlands...
...several weeks the world press had carried rumors of another Axis peace offensive. The De Gaullist Independent French News Agency stated flatly that Germany had made peace overtures to Britain through Turkey, Switzerland and Sweden, and released a purported "Göring memorandum." This document offered: 1) recognition of the British Empire; 2) U.S. control of Latin America; 3) trade collaboration between the German, British and U.S. Empires in return for: 1) German control of Europe; 2) such Russian territory as was needed for Lebensraum; 3) the colonies of France, The Netherlands and Belgium. London denied receiving any offers...