Progress in Algiers
It is all to the good, so fa: as it goes, that the attention of com- mentators in Algiers should have been fixed somewhat more on the meetings of the French Committee of National Liberation, and somewhat less on the rivalries between the supporters of General Giraud and General de Gaulle ; yet the air is still full of whispers going on behind the scenes. General Giraud has made another concession in agreeing to the resignation of M. Pierre Boisson as Governor-General of French West Africa. Fully as one can under- stand General de daulle's desire to purge the army and the adminis- tration of Vichy elements, a policy of incessant proscription could only alienate the sympathies of thpse who really put the liberation of France before personal considerations. The British and American authorities in France are not, of course, concerned about the political differences among Frenchmen which are going on in North Africa except so far as they affect the military situation ; and it is emphasised that General Eisenhower's intervention was concerned only with the fact that the French military command in North Africa affects the military position of the United Nations operating from that base. Again, in regard to President Roosevelt's invitation to General Giraud to visit him in Washington, the point is stressed that he goes in his military capacity to discuss purely military matters. It must be hoped that the day-to-day meetings of the Committee of National Liberation will bring to the fore matters on which there is common ground, and pave the way for common action towards the end that matters—the liberation of France. On the whole events are tending in that direction. There are able and moderate men on the Committee of National Liberation, well qualified in both administration and counsel.
