Word: giraudists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Giraud was named commander in chief of all French forces, as the Allied High Command had insisted (TIME, July 5). This decision did away with the separate Gaullist and Giraudist armies...
...Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor General of Algeria...
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