Evening star., 1943-03-27
.Catroux and Giraud
Confer on Union Of
French Against Axis
Custer Of Nogues and
Boisson Believed Amonq
De GuuIlist Demands
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALGIERS, March 27.-Gen
Henri Giraud and Gen. Georges
Catroux, both seeking a formula
for merger of the forces of Gen
Charles de Gaulle with the North
African French in a common
front against the Axis, conferred
this morning and then lunched
together at the Government
mansion.
Gen. Catroux's liaison staff here re-
fused comment on progress of the
negotiations, which are concerned
with practical means for uniting
French efforts and finding suitable
posts for various high personalities
The custer of Gen. Auguste
Nogues. commander of French Mo-
rocco, and Pierre Boisson, governor.
general of French West Africa, who
also serve on Gen. Giraud's wal
council, was believed to be among
the basic requirements put forward
by the De Gaullists for an under
standing. Gen. Nogues, at least, was
considered certain to lose out
French political circles said.
BOisson Replacement Seen.
Enmity between M Boisson and
Gen. De Gaulle, growing out of the
latter's unsuccessful attempt to take
Dakar by force, was believed sufn-
cient to necessitate M. BLOSSOMS re-
placement or transfer.
In London last night. Gen. de
Gaulle said in a French broadcast
over the British radio that he will
go very shortly to North Africa to
see Gen, Giraud, "a great soldier
and noble figure
(Pledging that their meeting
would insure fighting union of
all French forces, Gen. de Gaulle
declared: Together, Loyalty and
in friendly spirit, we shall seek
and we shall find means to insure
that the French empire shall be
but one empire, that French
strength shall be but one strength,
that the voice of the French peo-
pie who fight shall be heard in
the world as one voice, and, above
all, that this empire, this
strength, this voice shall be those
desired by the nation.
Gen. de Gaulle said that
Frenchmen never had ceased to
fight and hailed their efforts
while waiting for the moment
when the people of France can in
turn rise again.
An American-built plane brought
Gen. Catroux from Syria. where he
is the Fighting French delegate
general, to Algiers in a single day S
flight.
Will See Eisenhower.
He said he expected to confer, too,
with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
and with Robert Murphy, the Amer
lean Minister to French North At
RIGA, to ask for more equipment for
French forces.
Almost at the moment of his ar
rival, Gen. Giraud's headquarters
announced the resignation of Jac-
queS Lemaigre- e-Dubreuil, who headed
the inter-Allied affairs branch Of
the Giraud war council.
Though Lemaigre Dubreuil Of
fered considerable help in the Allied
landings in North Africa he was
associated earlier with Vichy COL
laborationists and identified with
extreme conservative elements and
the Cagoulard order. Gen. De Gaulle
followers pressed to have him
ousted.
CThe Algiers radio, heard in Lon
don by Reuters, reported today that
Marcel Peyrouten. governor general
of Algeria, has announced that his
administration is preparing for
quick restoration to Office of men,
bers of the administration and other
public officials who had been forced
out of office by Vichy decrees)
Jacques Lemaigre- -Dubreuil was
the civilian adviser to the military
mission sent to Washington last De-
cember % by Gen. Giraud and re-
turned to Algiers II days later, de-
claring that his task was finished
The other members of the mission
remained.