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Pierre Pucheu himself had the last word. Bitterly he cried: "The majority of Frenchmen followed Pétain as long as they thought that he served France. Are they traitors or third-class patriots? . . . [My conviction will] plant the first stake in a civil war. . . . Whatever happens, vive la France...
Rumormongers tried to brew more bitter tea between Giraud and General Charles de Gaulle. The facts: Giraud-De Gaulle relationships improved daily. During Giraud's visit, one gay, demonstrative crowd greeted him with cheers of "Vive Giraud!" Giraud silenced them, cried: "There are two generals at the head of the French National Committee, General de Gaulle and myself. Now, with me-'Vive De Gaulle!'" The Corsican crowd cheered...
...hurried past and entered the Tunis native quarter where the Arabs stood sullenly and watched our car go by. In the Jewish quarter the civilians cheered 'Vive la France!' and stopped us several times with the wall of flesh their bodies formed. An old man unfurled a picture of Roosevelt and shouted 'Vive Roosevelt!' They swarmed all over the car as we edged toward the center of town, and when we stopped before the Hotel Majestic there was almost a mob scene...
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...
Last week Colonel le Bel arrived in French Guiana. Frenchmen and natives greeted him with cries of "Vive De Gaulle, Vive Giraud...