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...Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton, Governor General of Algeria, promised to reestablish and share authority with Algeria's Superior Council of 60 members-29 appointed, 31 elected. Peyrouton also outlined a broad plan of economic reform, and took pains to identify his regime with President Roosevelt's leadership in "the defense of human liberties...
Justifying the recent appointment of Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria, Minister Murphy said: "Giraud wanted a man of proven ability as a colonial administrator, and General Eisenhower approved Peyrouton's appointment. The State Department and the [British] Foreign Office were consulted, but only in the matter of transporting Peyrouton from South America...
...their political-moral problem in North Africa had become. Through a suddenly relaxed censorship came the first clear picture of how completely the men of Vichy dominated North Africa, of how the American flag flew near concentration camps. To a nation still shuddering at the appointment of onetime collaborator Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria (TIME, Feb. 1), the facts came as a final shocker...
Every time De Gaulle and Giraud had seemed on the point of agreeing on some form of cooperation, butter had got in the works. Latest blob of butter was the appointment by Giraud of Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria. In 1940 Peyrouton was a Minister in the Vichy government; before that he was Vichy Resident General in Tunisia; to General de Gaulle he was unpalatable...
...Marcel Peyrouton, onetime Resident General of Tunisia, who is thoroughly detested by De Gaullists, showed up in North Africa. He came at the invitation of Giraud with the consent of General Eisenhower. Vichy's ambassador to Argentina until he resigned when Pierre Laval seized power, Peyrouton apparently now was slated for an administrative post with Giraud...