Even before the war ended, the Communists and de Gaulle’s supporters cast doubt on the war record of Alliance and its founder. A 1945 police report insisted that in forming Alliance, Navarre had only “solicited the cooperation of personalities on the right, members or fellow travelers of extreme parties or organizations.” It went on to charge that the network “could only be considered to have been a secret propaganda and intelligence service in favor of Pétain’s government.”
