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Justifying the recent appointment of Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria, Minister Murphy said: "Giraud wanted a man of proven ability as a colonial administrator, and General Eisenhower approved Peyrouton's appointment. The State Department and the [British] Foreign Office were consulted, but only in the matter of transporting Peyrouton from South America...
Pocket Play. New York Timesman Raymond Daniell last week described a scene at the Casablanca meeting between Generals Giraud and de Gaulle. Giraud had said that he had a plan for the union of all French forces in the administration of the French Empire. De Gaulle was interested, asked to see it. Giraud stuck his hand into his pocket. The plan was not there. He looked in other pockets. De Gaulle waited. Finally Robert Murphy spoke up. "Here it is," he said, reaching into one of his own pockets and handing the plan to Giraud...
General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commissioner in Syria, conferred with General Giraud last week. But the one really bright spot in this picture was the enthusiastic welcome accorded by General Giraud's Tunisian troops to General Jacques Leclerc's Fighting French forces...
Eisenhower's elevation to a full general, giving him equal rank with Marshall and MacArthur, seemed to be only a matter of time. By the account of newspaper dopesters, a British General (Alexander), Admiral (Cunningham) and an Air Marshal (Tedder) will serve under him, as will French General Giraud. Only 23 months ago Ike Eisenhower had been a lieutenant colonel, five ranks and a million years below four stars...
...Eisenhower's chief deputy, Alexander would have direct command over all ground forces: the British Eighth Army (General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery), the British First Army (Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson), the U.S. Fifth Army (Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark), the French West African Army (General Henri Giraud...