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Though long retired from active command in the French army, Juin by his stand might stir up troublemakers among the 400,000 soldiers on active duty in Algeria. Taking no chances, French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat curtly summoned Juin to his office in Paris and reminded him of "the government's will that military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must...
Died. General Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat, 77, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the East (1917), chief of the post-war army of occupation in the Rhineland, onetime (1926) French Minister of War; of pneumonia; in Nantes...
...Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
General Adolphe Guillaumat Minister...
...strategy of M. Caillaux is evident from a glance at the list of Ministers. They are predominantly Left and Centrist demagogues, offset by General Guillaumat, no politician but a stern and confidence-inspiring commander during the French occupation of the Ruhr...