Word: juin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post of "chairman" was to go to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery; under him France's General Alphonse-Pierre Juin (now governor of North Africa) was to command all land forces; Britain was to get command both at sea and in the air. The ultimate aim was to weld five armies, standing at the West's frontier, into one army...
...noteworthy criticism came from Belgium. Wrote Brussels' Communist Drapeau Rouge: "Belgian soldiers loathe Buckingham Palace parades. They are afraid Montgomery might force them to eat that horribly cooked British food." The U.S. was known to prefer General Juin; and Juin, who used to be General de Gaulle's chief of staff, flatly refused to serve under the proposed setup...
From General Alphonse Pierre Juin, currently commanding French occupation forces in Germany, came a telling letter. Pátain had telegraphed secret orders to North Africa, countermanding his published Instructions to resist the Allied landings...
Longer War? The questions of using French manpower and of manufacturing war materiel in France were undoubtedly a chief subject in the discussions between Churchill and [Field Marshal Sir Alan] Brooke and De Gaulle and Juin this week. If the concerted reaction of the French press, and also President Roosevelt's speech, are indications, France will be given the materials to build war industries to equip her own soldiers. This means that we are planning for a much longer war than anybody at home-or here either -thought possible last September...
...days after his announcement, General de Gaulle and Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin left Paris for Allied High Command headquarters on the western front. There they talked strategy with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, other bigwigs. General de Gaulle was clinching his argument that, without France, "nothing can be decided, neither victory, world organization, nor peace...