Word: peyrouton
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...royalists; big industrialists who had always feared the Republic more than the Nazis; antidemocrats like Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the peanut-oil king, who helped install Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor General of Algeria...
...Marcel Peyrouton, anathema to the De Gaullists, patriotically offered to resign as Governor General of Algeria, General de Gaulle promptly accepted. Furious Giraudists charged that the Fighting French were usurping power, plotting a coup...
...which anything could happen, cleared suddenly. The impossible became a fact. After three hours behind closed doors, the seven conferees announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee expanded its membership...
...Marcel Peyrouton, hardboiled, flabby-jowled onetime sponsor of Vichy's version of the Nürnberg Laws and later Ambassador to Argentina, has been Giraud's chief political administrator. Peyrouton has done a good job under his new masters...
Outspokenly anti-Vichy, anti-Axis Charles Brunei, intimate friend of Fighting French General Georges Catroux, was appointed head of Peyrouton's important Council of War Economy. A former mayor of Algiers, Brunei escaped arrest during a De Gaullist roundup last December only by virtue of his prestige. His son Jacques was in jail until last month. Out as propaganda secretary went pro-Axis Jean Rigaud, to be replaced by distinguished General Rene Michel Jules Joseph Chambe, a soldier and writer untainted by Axis collaboration...