ABSTRACT
In the minds both of Murphy and of the anti-Gaullist French group with whom he was negotiating in Algiers, General Giraud had a key role to play in TORCH and its immediate aftermath because he was a figure behind whom the French forces in North and West Africa might rally. The problem was that he was not only in the wrong place-still in France-but that communication with him was difficult; besides, he had still not been won over to the idea of Allied landings in North Africa and was instead strongly arguing the case for southern France.
