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Last week the President also: >Talked to a military mission representing North Africa's General Henri Giraud, and announced that he would "soon" be visited by Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle, on the question of French military and political unity...
...which gave the U.S. a chance to make a clean deal in North Africa, also gave French factionalists a chance to brew a political crisis. Two remarkably candid reports to the U.S. this week suggested that all was far from quiet beneath the top layer of General Henri Honore Giraud's government...
Broadcasting for CBS from Algiers, Charles Collingwood said that Giraud's arrest of twelve alleged co-conspirators in the Darlan case was part of a new struggle for power-"not only over North Africa but over the future of France...
Nothing was released from North Africa on the identity or the political color of the twelve men arrested on Giraud's orders as a purely preventive measure. Some of them, Giraud admitted, were "personal friends." At least two others had aided the landing of U.S. invasion forces. Nipped, said the bony, conservative new High Commissioner, was a plot to assassinate him and Robert Murphy, new and equally conservative U.S. Minister in North Africa...
...decision involving fundamental democratic principles must be suitable to them. The fact that the British Foreign Office has thrown its support behind General De Gaulle during the entire North African dispute cannot long be disregarded by the State Department. De Gaulle has offered to cooperate with General Giraud, but it was the only thing he could do since he has again been placed in a second-rate position by the manipulations of the United States. England and France, in the person of the Fighting French, have given their backing to General De Gaulle. The United States has placed its money...