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basing its claim for recognition on the fact that it represents the majority of the knovm 
 
anti-collaborationists who were elected representatives. The Comite National accepts de Gaulle as 
 
chief of the army and is ready to place all its influence in his hands to liberate France. It would 
 
even be willing to have him set up a temporary government (under appropriate controls) for the 
 
purpose of holding elections in the extent that he reaches France as the army head.
 
          The Cornire has locals in Brittany, Normandy and the southwest of France, and 
 
new locals are being established in the east, north and Paris regions. It is in close touch with the 
 
Consells Generaux and Municipaux in considerable areas of France. It asks that Louis Marin be 
 
considered its representative and that he be consulted. It stands ready to supply trained 
 
administrators and asks that it be consulted on plans for liberated areas.
 
                               The Comite has adopted as its platform the maintenance of democratic 
 
government, expulsion of the Nazis, resistance to arbitrary government (left or right) and 
 
avoidance of civil war.