Judgment Against Vichy

Proclaimed General Charles de Gaulle: "The hour of supreme combat and sacrifice has struck." In Algiers' cobbled streets the ragged newsboys shouted: "Allied invasion!" "Is it France?" cried Frenchmen, then snatched up the single-sheet papers, saw that it was Italy, turned away.

But the feeling that soon it would be France spurred the newly recognized French Committee of National Liberation. From its councils flowed important measures:

> Mobilization for military or civil service of all Frenchmen anywhere in the Empire or abroad.

> Appointment of a committee of three--General de Gaulle, General Henri Giraud, Interior Commissioner Andre Philip--to direct liaison with the underground in France.

> Establishment of a special commission to guide the reconstitution of civil authority when France is free.

> Indictment of the Vichy regime in hard words: the Committee promised "an action of justice in regard to Marshal Petain and those participating in the pseudo-government formed by him, which capitulated, struck at the Constitution, collaborated with the enemy, delivered French workers to the Germans, and made French forces fight against the Allies or against the French who continued the struggle."

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