Albert Guigui arrived half-starved from France. To the Fighting French in London, he brought assurance of the support of the once-powerful French trade-union movement. When he met the London press, he looked like an unkind caricature of Charlie Chaplin.
Long-haired, tiny-mustached M. Guigui read a prepared statement on French labor's resistance to Germany's manhunt for manpower. Then a London Daily Herald reporter asked: "To what extent do the French people distrust De Gaulle's Bonapartist tendencies?"
The reporter had posed a familiar question about General Charles de Gaulle's Rightist connections (which have worried...
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