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...French cracked down hard. General Jacques Leclerc's troops occupied Fez. Istiqlal leaders were imprisoned. The French labeled the Istiqlal as an Axis agency. It was a rude awakening for the nationalists...
Helped the late General Jacques Leclerc rally French Equatorial Africa to the Free French banner. Became Commissioner of Colonies, later Minister of Finance. Broke with De Gaulle in 1947, forming his own small party, Union Democratique et Sociale de la Resistance, which stands between the Radical Socialists and the Socialists, favors limited industrial nationalization and state controls. Was Minister of National Defense under Premier Georges Bidault, has been Premier since July it in a moderate-leftist coalition government whose strength is much less than the sum of its parts...
...realized that she was one. For a while, Lester and her sniveling girl friend Evelyn (they had been killed by the same crashing plane) were lonely in the soundless, deserted London they haunted. But then they got involved with a gaunt, ascetic emissary of the Devil named Simon Leclerc (he was disguised as a popular religious leader and preached about Love...
...Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...
...victory. Future battles might have different outcomes, but in this one, at least, France had beaten the "Cocos." One night in Paris, where electric current was on again, two powerful searchlights made a giant V in the sky. Actually this show was for the late wartime hero, General Jacques Leclerc (TIME, Dec. 8), whose body lay in Notre Dame. But many Parisians saw it as a symbol of triumph over a newer enemy...