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            REPORT FROM ARGUS REGIS ON CONVERSATIONS
                WITH FRENCH RESISTANCE LEADER
 
     Today I had two long talks with one of the important leaders of the French Resistance
Movement.  He is motivated by determination to drive German forces from French soil and is not,
unlike many others, occupied with details of internal French politics.  He crossed the Pyrenees the
first week in February and is in Spain clandestinely en routre to Algiers.  The heads of the French
Mission here and the French Red Cross both vouch for him.  I shall refer to him as "Delphi".  The
following facts were brought out in conversation, principally in anwer to specific questions:
Attitude of members of French Resistance Movement toward Americans:
     All branches, particularly those in the Maquis, are becoming increasingly disillusioned with
the British and Americans.  This feeling is being replaced by growing admiration for the Russians,
who are considered alone to be bearing the brunt of military operations against the German Army. 
There is disappointment over the lag in Italy, and Allied generalship is criticized as "No better
than the French that lost the Battle of France."  Delphi believes this feeling will vanish as soon as
a successful invasion of France is begun from the West and that the Allied Armies will meet with
support from a unified France beyond anything that was either promised or
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