Gaullism Again

New York Timesman Harold Callender, who does all but sleep in the State Department, reported last week: "Robert D. Murphy ... is expected to return to Washington soon for conference with the President and the State Department. It is understood he may not return to Algiers . . . because of ill health and the strain of the past year."

Timesman Callender also noted: "Authoritative reports reaching Washington say that . . . almost all Frenchmen support General Charles de Gaulle's program. . . . The French people ... assume that complete agreement exists among Frenchmen outside France . . . and the British and Americans. They expect the Allies to work closely with General de Gaulle . . . and the Committee [of Liberation]."

This was a sharp about face in advices to the White House and State Department from Algiers. Heretofore Washington had been told that Gaullism did not symbolize French resistance, that De Gaulle was difficult and perhaps dangerous. Could it be that Minister Murphy was being recalled to explain?

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