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...National Defense, charged with the study of "general conditions" for fusing and organizing French forces. Other defense committee members: General Giraud; a new Army Chief of Staff, General Gilbert Leyer; a new Navy Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral André Georges Lemonnier; and Air Force Chief of Staff, René Bouscat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Accord at Last | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Fourth Republic | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Union in Algiers | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Misunderstanding | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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