* “Here and there were some little unpleasant scenes, but the fact is that it was only before Giraud made clear his distaste for politics and then accepted without question de Gaulle’s pre-eminence in the political field. Giraud wanted to command French troops in the field—that’s what he really wanted to do. Well, of course, it didn’t really work out in the long run and finally Giraud disappeared from the scene,” Eisenhower will later remember.