Word: ren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle's opponents said he was trying to make himself master of the new Committee before the magic of his name waned. They said that even his Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Renè Massigli, and calm, friendly General Catroux were being alienated by his intransigence...
...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...
...French masses - 'We must not build in Algeria something not in accord with the people of France.' " The two generals set up a seven-man committee to be the central power. Generals Giraud and de Gaulle will preside over it alternately. It has two De Gaullists, René Massigli and André Philip, and two Giraudists, Jean Monnet and General Alphonse-Joseph Georges (seven stars). No. 2 French general at the war's outbreak, who escaped from France last week. The seventh man is General Catroux. He was the intermediary chiefly responsible for bringing De Gaulle...
Bloodlessly but firmly they ousted ineffective Governor René Weber, released political prisoners, shouted Vive la France. At long last their colony had freed itself of the reactionary, pro-Fascist control of Admiral Georges Robert in Martinique. Excited cables went off from Negro Mayor M. Sophie of Cayenne to Generals de Gaulle and Giraud. The cables were garbled in transmission but they indicated that French Guiana was awaiting their orders...
Then matters suddenly changed. In recent weeks Giraud has ousted some of the more distasteful Vichy administrators. He sent eagle-beaked Yves Chatel, Governor General of Algeria, off to sympathetic Spain. He placed the anti-Vichy René Chambe in charge of propaganda. Charles Brunei, anti-Vichy former mayor of Algiers, was brought into the Council of War Economy. Reactionary General Jean Bergeret, Giraud's deputy civil commander, and Fascist-minded Jean Rigaud, political secretary of the North African war council, resigned. Previously Giraud had said: "I think after I announce my plans they will kick themselves...