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...days later, when General Giraud met the U.S. press-in the Conference Room of the Army's Pentagon Building-an Army colonel abruptly informed reporters that only questions on military topics would be permitted...
These stories were in exact key with the anti-De Gaulle stories that had poured forth for months from North Africa. The drive became so hot and so obvious that Columnist Walter Lippmann cried: It is time "to stop the official propaganda campaign for Giraud and against De Gaulle...
...Line? As the aftermath of North African expediency, the U.S. foreign policy toward France was now out in the open, a policy charted in the White House. And though on the surface it appeared to favor General Giraud over General de Gaulle actually it favored neither of them...
...White House dinner for General Giraud on the night of the invasion of Sicily (at which, among nonmilitary guests, was Secretary of State Cordell Hull), Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass in a toast to a liberated France, adding: "It is a very great symbol that General Giraud is here tonight. . . ." Yet it seemed to Frenchmen-both Giraudists and Gaullists alike-that the tanned five-star general, who has no stomach for politics, was a virtual prisoner in the U.S., his words censored, his movements circumscribed, his visits outside Washington mysterious...
...Giraudists and Gaullists everywhere, and which certainly would have shocked the 42,000,000 people of France, especially those risking their lives in the underground, if they had heard it. In reply to a question on the possible recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation (of which Generals Giraud and De Gaulle are co-chairmen), the President said: there is, at the present time, no France, except for the five percent outside France. He would have a hard time erasing that sentence from Frenchmen's minds...