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...behind the scenes in North Africa realized that the time had come to say something. "The events of the last week," said U.S. Minister Robert Murphy, "marked a definite departure from the Vichy form of Government." The definite departure amounted to a reorganization of General Henri Honoré Giraud's administration, giving supreme power to the old soldier, but also opening a chink through which Fighting Frenchmen might some day enter...
More eloquent than any indictment of Vichy influence in North Africa was a list of prisoners released by the Giraud Government last week. They were arrested last December after Admiral Jean Francois Darlan was assassinated. The list included...
...Alexandre and Moati, who gave U.S. and British troops the signal to land on an Algerian beach. Alexandre, before he escaped from France to Algiers, assisted in General Giraud's own escape from Vichyfrance to join the Allies...
...Giraud Government said that 903 political prisoners, including 420 Poles, had been freed since Nov. 8. Still held: some 5,500 political prisoners, among them many Spanish Republicans...
Murphy said that the Allies were anxious to create a healthy political atmosphere in North Africa. But were not General Giraud's new powers just a trifle dictatorial? Well, said Murphy, backed up by his British colleague Harold Macmillan, they were not quite so dictatorial as they might seem. Possibly, Murphy said, General Giraud "might reinstitute the election of the Algerian Council" (a purely local affair). But that was about as far as the General would...