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Biographer André Maurois, onetime liaison officer with the British Army, notable defender of Petain, refugee in Manhattan since the fall of France, prepared to join the Giraud forces in North Africa as a captain...
...Fighting French memorandum which proposed the basis of an operational union. In that speech Giraud promised liberated Frenchmen that they could, if they chose, revive the Third Republic. He announced the abrogation of Vichy's anti-Jewish laws. Last week posters portraying the weary features of Marshal Henri Petain were torn from the walls of public buildings. Not all traces of Vichy were expunged, but there was enough progress to set the stage for a De Gaulle-Giraud conference...
ALGIERS--The French African Government tonight ordered all public pictures, posters, statements, signs and slogans relating to Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain removed starting tomorrow...
Following swiftly on Gen. Henri Girand's repudiation of all Vichy Statutes as affecting North Africa, the order also provided that postage stamps or other issues carrying Petain's picture of signature should be removed from circulation at once...
...luncheon date with Darlan a tantamount acknowledgment of the new setup, but he gave it further weight by a public statement: "All Frenchmen worthy of their country's great past have forgotten their small differences of ideas." To Darlan, who still maintains the fiction of acting for Marshal Petain in France, there came messages of support from a scattering of French colonies. A message from Boisson's own West African native group, the Legion of Black Africa, ended with the salutation: "Vive le Marechal [Petain], Vive la France...