Word: weygand
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...Khartoum, where they will make final preparations for setting out across the Sahara to join the army of General Laminat under de Gaulle. Possible objectives of these Free French troops are the Italians in Libya or even the troops of the Vichy Government under the command of General Weygand on the Ivory Coast of West Africa...
...Ambassador's Government would like to see the Fleet and General Maxime Weygand's North African Army back in the war with the British. Admiral Leahy has let it be known that if German demands should force France to re-enter the war on the British side, the U. S. would support her as fully as the U. S. now supports Great Britain. But the U. S. and U. S. aid are far away, and Germany just around the corner...
...Gaulle's Council of Defense of Empire, but took care to limit recognition to those colonies actually under De Gaulle's administration: French Equatorial Africa, the Cameroons and a couple of islands in the Pacific. Thus Britain had left wide the door to recognition of General Maxime Weygand's administration in North Africa and Syria, if Weygand decided to fight Germany. Nobody expected General Weygand so to decide except under orders from his chief at Vichy...
...Marshal came to trust were War Minister General Charles Huntziger, Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted as Foreign Minister to take over the job himself. In this group, and in the person of General Maxime Weygand in Africa, centred the opposition to "collaboration" of a kind that would mean utter capitulation. Their strongest cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army in Africa, and these cards grew in power with Italy's reverses in the Mediterranean. So powerful had they become...
...When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers...