Evening star., 1943-06-08
Cabinet Of Il Formed
By French Committee
As Governing Agency
Vague Announcement
Also Refers to Special
War Organization
By the Associated Press.

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disclosed to consist of IA members
II cabinet members, Co-Presidents
Gems. Charles de Gaulle and Henr
Giraud, and Gen. Alphonse Georges
who is said to be slated to become
minister without portfolio. He il
the only one of the original sever
members of the committee not listed
for a department and it appeared he
Is to be sidetracked because of his
age and his opposition to Gen. de
Gaulle.
New Cabinet List.
The official makeup of the new
cabinet Is:
Foreign Affairs-Rene Massigli.
Co-oDdinator of Moslem affairs
Gen. Georges Catroux
Armaments-Jean Monnet.
Colonies-Rene Pleven.
Communica tions and merchant
marine-Rene Meyer.
Information-Henri Bonnet.
Interior-Andre Philip
Justice, education and health -
DR.. Jules Abadie, who had been
Gen. Giraud's secretary of the in
terror
Finance-Maurice Couve de Muir
vile.
Production and commerce An
drew Diethelm.
Labor and social affairs-Adrien
Tixier.
The committee appointed Gabriel
Puaux, former high commissioner
in Syria, as successor to Gen. Au-
guste Nogues as resident general OF
Morocco, and named Jean Helleu,
high commissioner in Syria, to sue
ceed Catroux, now member of the
committee and Governor General of
Algeria.
Membership of the War Commit
tee was not announced nor was its
size disclosed.
Gen. Giraud and Gen. de Gaulle
we're not listed for portfolios, indi-
eating there was no agreement yet
on this point.
At was generally expected, how
ever, that Gen. Giraud would con-
tirlue as commander in chief of the
French Army.
The only important cabinet posts
still untitled are those of minister
OF war, navy and air-which might
be grouped in single portfolio as
has been done before in France.
AS the committee is not formally
set up as a government, the mem
bers will not be called ministers, but
will be merely holders of portfolios.
What in normal French government
would be known as ministries will be
given the American name of de-
partments.
The committee in its pronounce
ments once more declared itself the
sole central French authority and
once more pledged itself to surren-
der its powers to the provisional
government to be set up when
France is liberated.
Boisson May Remain.
1t asserted, however, its right to
negotiate treaties with foreign
powers and to accredit diplomatic
representatives to foreign powers
and to receive foreign diplomatic
representatives.
So far the United States and Brit
ain, while receiving representatives OF
both the De Gaulle and Giraud fac
lons, have not accorded them full
diplomatic status and since they re-
gard the present committee as a de
facto organization with attributes of
government rather than as the gov
ernment of France, it is uncertain
under what terms they will receive
Its representatives.
Yesterdays announcements were
signed by Gen. Giraud and Gen. de
Gaulle as joint presidents of the
committee.
Informed sources said Pierre
Boisson now is expected to remain
as Governor General of French West
Africa, despite the opposition of
Gen. de Gaulle. who led an unsuc-
cessful attack against Dakar earlier
in the war.
Gen. Giraud's press chief, Andre
Labarthe, has been removed from
Office, it was learned.
Members Vote Opinions.
Reliable sources said the commit
tee in its task of establishing a
united government had broken away
from party lines" of Giraudists and
De Gaullists, and that each member
has been voting his individual opin-
ion.
Gen. de Gaulle's appointees, Mas
sigli and Philip, both were reported
TO have voted against his proposals
on several occasions, and Gen. de
Gaulle found himself in minority
of one over certain points, these
sources said.
Publication of the daily Alger Re-
publican, which had suspended in
the early days of the war, and of
the Communist weekly Liberte was
authorized by the committee, fol-
lowing its declared policy of per-
mitting greater freedom of the press.
Algiers has three other dailies. La
Depeche Algerienne, Echo d'Alger
and the Dernieres Nouvelles. Two
other weeklies are the -Giraud
Tam and the probe Gaulle Com
bat.