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...General Giraud replied only by action: he appointed several more anti-Axis Frenchmen to government posts, and ousted his Inter-Allied economic adviser, Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil (see below...
Gone were many earlier aspects of Giraud-De Gaulle and U.S.-British friction. But London and Washington were not optimistic about a "one-empire, one-strength, one-voice" agreement. The best that they hoped for was operational unity between divided but cooperating forces. That was an immediate necessity, and the French are practical...
Within an hour after Fighting Frenchman Georges Catroux arrived in Algiers last week (see col. 1), the Giraud Government announced the dismissal of Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a French industrialist (peanut oil) who had taken a devious but potent hand in North African affairs...
Frenchmen in sweltering, graft-ridden French Guiana (home of Devil's Island) believed what they heard: General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French and General Henri Giraud in North Africa were uniting in the cause of French liberation. That was enough...
...ousted ineffective Governor René Weber, released political prisoners, shouted Vive la France. At long last their colony had freed itself of the reactionary, pro-Fascist control of Admiral Georges Robert in Martinique. Excited cables went off from Negro Mayor M. Sophie of Cayenne to Generals de Gaulle and Giraud. The cables were garbled in transmission but they indicated that French Guiana was awaiting their orders...