No one in the Assembly dared criticize de Gaulle personally, but other members of the CFLN found themselves in the firing line – especially André Philip, whom de Gaulle had put in charge of relations between the Assembly and the CFLN. Once again Philip tried to offer de Gaulle some home truths: In an admirable chapter of the The Edge of the Sword you drew the portrait of the leader, cold, reserved, accepting the need to be alone and repressing his feelings … You need to establish a human contact; the tragedy with you is that you do not feel this: your intelligence is Republican, your instincts
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