Late News DISPUTE OVER PEYROUTEN

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 103, 26 January 1943, Page 5

Late News DISPUTE OVER PEYROUTEN

Cable Accusation (Received January 26, 12.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 25. The newspaper “P.M.” states that it learns from a high Washington source that the State Secretary's special assistant in charge of the Office of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Paul Appleby, has resigned in protest against the appointment of M. Peyrouten as Governor-General of Algeria. It adds that Mr. Appleby is satisfied that tlie appointment was engineered against the express wishes of General Eisenhower by the American Minister to Africa, Mr. Murphy, the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Berie and others. According to the report, Mr. Appleby said that two cables arrived on the same day, one, which was signed “Eisenhower,” asking General Marshall to find out what the State Department’s attitude was to Peyrouten, and the other, signed “General Eisenhower,” requesting the State Department to hasten Peyrouten’s trip to Africa. Mr. Appleby questioned whether the second cable really originated from General Eisenhower or was written by Mr. Murphy. Mr. Appleby then called a departmental conference in order to investigate the matter, but two days before the conference a “pro-Peyrouten clique in the State Department” persuaded Mr. Hull to' instruct the Buenos Aires Legation to let ■Peyrouten proceed to North Africa, whereupon Mr. Appleby resigned. Rome radio today said that General Eisenhower has expelled the Comte de Paris from Algiers.