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...long-awaited negotiations between the Fighting French, backed by Britain, and General Henri Giraud, backed by the U.S., began in North Africa last week. In the preliminaries, the Fighting French were represented by able General Georges Catroux, commander in Syria and Lebanon. But De Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, announced in a broadcast to Occupied France that he himself would soon leave London to meet and confer with that "great soldier and noble figure," General Henri Honore Giraud. Together, said De Gaulle, "we will seek and find means of assuring that the French Empire shall be one Empire, that French...
...Giraud is irritated by politics, believes that if men do their work there is no need to look into their personal politics during wartime. But at least three men around Giraud warrant close inspection...
...Marcel Peyrouton, hardboiled, flabby-jowled onetime sponsor of Vichy's version of the Nürnberg Laws and later Ambassador to Argentina, has been Giraud's chief political administrator. Peyrouton has done a good job under his new masters...
...Auguste Noguès of Morocco, was North Africa's most truculent military figure under Vichy. A shrewd man with twinkling eyes, he is feared and respected by the natives. He has shown no warmth toward Germany, none toward the U.S. or Britain. Last week he climbed on Giraud's unity bandwagon...
ALFIERS--Gen. Henri Honore Giraud and Gen. George Catroux, Fighting French liaison officers, are discussing three possible forms of a provisional French unity government, it was disclosed authoritatively today...