For the first time, U.S. citizens could see last week in true perspective how deadly serious their political-moral problem in North Africa had become. Through a suddenly relaxed censorship came the first clear picture of how completely the men of Vichy dominated North Africa, of how the American flag flew near concentration camps. To a nation still shuddering at the appointment of onetime collaborator Marcel Peyrouton as Governor General of Algeria (TIME, Feb. 1), the facts came as a final shocker.
But to the cry for explanations, State Secretary Cordell Hull chose to give...
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