U.S. OFFICIAL RESIGNS AS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 5

U.S. OFFICIAL RESIGNS AS

PROTEST

• NEW YORK, January 25. The newspaper "P.M." says it learns from a high Washington source that the State Secretary's special assistant in charge of the Office of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Paul Appleby, has resigned in protest against the appointment of M. Peyrouton as GovernorGeneral of Algeria. It adds that Mr. Appleby is satisfied "that the appointment was engineered against the express wishes of General Eisenhower by the American Minister to Africa, Mr. Murphy, the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Berle, and others. According to the report, Mr. Appleby said tha.t two cables arrived on the same day, one, which was signed I "Eisenhower," asking General Marshall to find out what the State Department's attitude was to Peyrouton, and. the other, signed "General Eisenhower," requesting the State Department to hasten Peyrouton's trip to Africa. Mr. Appleby questioned whether the second cable really originated from General Eisenhower or was written by Mr. Murphy. Mr. Appleby then called a departmental conference in order to investigate the matter, but" two days before the conference a "pro-Peyrouton clique in the State Department" persuaded Mr. Hull to instruct the Buenos Aires Legation to let Peyrouton proceed to North Africa, whereupon Mr. Appleby resigned. llome radio today said that General Eisenhower has expelled the Comte de Paris from Algiers.