 In September 1942, he was recalled to London to become de Gaulle's "Directeur du Cabinet", a post in which he followed de Gaulle from London to Algiers in 1943 and then in August 1944 to liberated Paris.He became known as de Gaulle's "homme de confiance" (right-hand man), and his diplomatic skills and knowledge of the British made him invaluable to de Gaulle, who neither understood the British nor trusted them.Palewski remained director of de Gaulle's cabinet (that is, his private office) until de Gaulle's resignation as head of the Provisional Government in January 1946.