The Shape of Unity

Difficult General Charles de Gaulle and stubborn General Henri Giraud still had their differences. But they were differences within a strengthening frame of compromise and unity. Frenchmen saw a sturdy shape of things in two events :

>In Algiers, the Committee of Liberation argued long & hotly. The issue: political or military control over a new Commissariat of National Defense. The outcome: dapper, genial General Paul Legentilhomme was appointed to head the Commissariat. Thereby General Giraud won an argument for a military man to run what is in effect a civilian ministry of war. But General de Gaulle also won an argument for putting Army command under Committee authority. And Paul Legentilhomme, a St. Cyr military academy careerist, has been a Gaullist since 1940 and bears the scars of a wound inflicted by Vichyites in Syria.

>In liberated Corsica, the French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortune and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Aretuse and Perle from Toulon.

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