Word: weygand
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...released reports that another raiding party, continuing on from Murzuch, had moved northward along the Algerian frontier, captured the fort of Gadames. If this were true, it would put them astride a well-built north-south motor road, 300 miles southwest of Tripoli, just across the border from General Weygand's garrison at Fort Saint in the Tunisia-Algeria-Libya corner...
Jubilantly Colonel Diego Brosset, onetime officer in the French Mehariste Camel Corps, took to the radio in London, in soldierly language exhorted the Free French to push on, urged the troops in Weygand's command to pitch in with them. "It is Brosset, a Saharan of Algiers, of Morocco, of Mauritania and the Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before...
...Marshal and told him that the British had agreed to let more food shipments into France. Since Laval and the British despise one another, the Ambassador did not have to stipulate that the British would undoubtedly change their minds if Laval got supreme power. From North Africa General Maxime Weygand proclaimed that France would never agree to the occupation of Bizerte or any other part of Tunisia, and from farther east came news of the British capture of Bengasi (see p. 36). These things helped to keep the Marshal's spine stiff in the face of an enemy...
...Stuka bases there. At Tripoli they would have another naval operating base, besides Malta, near the Sicilian channel. To throw Italy entirely and finally out of Africa was a goal not to be sneered at. Perhaps British proximity might prove to be a beneficial persuasion on General Maxime Weygand. The Vichy censors decided it was about time to let French newspapers pay a little attention to the Italian situation in Africa. The paper Montague of Clermont-Ferrand went so far as to say: "The word 'retreat' should now be used...
...African war, but it had excellent propaganda value. It was the first successful independent operation of Free Frenchmen against anything but other Frenchmen. Three days after General Catroux's announcement, General de Gaulle addressed a call to arms to the pro-Vichy armies under General Maxime Weygand in North Africa and Syria: "Are you going to remain inactive with arms at your side, humiliated, broken-spirited, when the fate of France and her Empire is being decided within range of your guns? . . . The game is not finished." General Weygand deemed the challenge worthy of a reply. Next...