DISPUTE IN CORSICA
GIRAUD AND DE GAULLE
LONDON, Sept. 25 Another dispute between General de Gaulle and General Giraud has developed over Corsica. A correspondent at Algiers says the trouble began when General de Gaulle walked out of a meeting of the French Committee of Liberation as a protest againt General Giraud’s action in sending 5 military governor, General Mollard, to Corsica without consulting the committee.
At a subesquent meeting General de Gaulle proposed that General Giraud should cease to be a member. One report quotes GeneTal de Gaulle as telling General Giraud, “You stole my Corsica.” The issue at stake is whether General Giraud, as Commander-in-Chief of the French Forces under General Eisenhower’s supreme command, was within his rights in sending a military governor with the troops. It is understood that a majority of the French Committee of Liberation hold that he ought to have sought its consent before doing so.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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