FRANCE: At Last

This week, after four months of negotiations, General Charles de Gaulle accepted the latest proposal of General Henri Honoré Giraud and agreed to meet General Giraud in Algiers.

At the meeting in Algiers Generals de Gaulle and Giraud have each agreed to appoint two members of a nine-man central French authority to be used as the framework for uniting divergent French forces inside & outside metropolitan France. These six will name three other members, and this group, over which De Gaulle and Giraud will preside alternately, will organize a consultative council and form a provisional government to be dissolved...

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