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...Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis, for once having to worry about too little and too late, poured additional planes into the French Protectorate from bases in Sardinia and Sicily. German paratroops captured and held the airfield after French scattered garrisons under the leadership of the ubiquitous General Henri Giraud fired on the Nazis and Italians. Drawing on "flying Panzer divisions," supposedly held for an invasion of Britain, Hitler air-ferried twelve-and 15-ton tanks to protect the approaches to Bizerte harbor. Italian marines were reported landed by sea. Axis subs swarmed like sharks off the coasts...
...Then, in an announcement broadcast by the Algiers radio, he took over the civil administration of the colonies in the name of Marshal Pétain-and with the approval of the U.S. authorities. He set up his own military command under the stanch old soldier and escapist General Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under this former collaborator with Germany-in the rear...
LONDON--Marshal Henri Petaiu invested Pierre Laval with dictatorial powers today and the pro-Axis Vichy government chief promptly exercised them by shaking up his cabinet, replacing the ministers of Navy and Communications, the Vichy radio announced tonight...
Over the Algiers radio came the most surprising and inspiring French voice of all. It was that of big, spirited General Henri Honore Giraud, idol of France, Germany's No. 1 war prisoner and escapist (TIME, May 11). Cried...
...David and Goliath, just completed. The picture appears to be a highly colored masterly rendering of Vermont in autumn. But ingeniously concealed in the background is the head of Goliath. A tree contains the figure of David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash of phosphorus; a colossal Phenomena, a hodgepodge of bodies with the focus on feet and midsections, which stunned New York and London...