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Plot & Promise. General Henri Giraud last week dredged up a plot to usurp power and install the youthful Pretender, the Comte de Paris, as head of a North African kingdom. One guess was that the Comte would be shipped back to his pig farm in Tangier...
Rebuffs to both collaborationists and royalist plotters conceivably would pave the way for rapprochement between Giraud and the Fighting French of General...
...British spokesmen, Information Minister Brendan Bracken and North African Minister Harold Macmillan, put the British on record as supporting the political and military decisions of General Dwight Eisenhower. Thus they spiked, officially, reports that the British Government distrusted U.S. policies, and indirectly furthered moves to bring De Gaulle and Giraud together. But the efforts for De Gaulle-Giraud agreement picked up two thorns...
...prospects of getting together with all other anti-Axis Frenchmen (including General de Gaulle) Geneneral Henri Giraud said this week: "Everything will be satisfactorily arranged, and we shall all be united against Vichyism and fight the Nazis." This was either a hint or a hope...
While this week brought reports that General Giraud and Fighting France's General Charles de Gaulle might be able to get together, Reporter Pyle concluded: 1) the going will be "tough and probably long" before U.S. troops can move on "to bigger fronts"; 2) the French are "fundamentally behind us, but ... a strange illogical stratum is against us"; 3) "our fundamental policy still is one of soft-gloving the snakes in our midst...