Word: giraud
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...long last the French leaders in Algiers completed a formula for unity.. The final, seemingly immovable obstacle between General Charles de Gaulle and Gen eral Henri Giraud had been the issue of Army control and reorganization. Now the Committee of Liberation pushed aside the obstacle...
...General de Gaulle was directed to preside over the Committee's political discussions, General Giraud over military discussions. This was a Gaullist victory...
...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...
Then, at his press conference, the President went on the defensive: the Administration was the victim of vicious propaganda. It sided neither with Giraud nor De Gaulle, it was not trying to interfere in internal French affairs. And there the contest settled into the early-inning doldrums, with no one quite sure what Pitcher Roosevelt had up his sleeve...
General Henri Honoré Giraud recalled happily in Washington how he renewed an old German acquaintance. A year after he had slipped out of Germany's Königstein prison, he encountered a bunch of prisoners in North Africa, discovered among them his old jailer...