Word: henry
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...Nazis' No. 1 French war prisoner had escaped from Germany and reached Vichy and talked openly with Marshal Pétain. Presumably the Nazis could yank him back to Germany again. But towering, mustachioed General Henri Honoré Giraud, 63, escapist extraordinary, reputedly a German-hater, said to be an admirer of the military theories of General Charles de Gaulle, had become more than ever an old darling of France, and Quisling Pierre Laval was already having enough trouble with the French people...
This was not the first time Henri Honoré Giraud had escaped from the Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...
MacNeal, Richard Henri...
VICHY--Pierre Laval, Premier-designate in a French collaboration government, will return here tomorrow from Paris to confer with Marshal Henri Petain and Vice-Premier Admiral Francois Darlan on formation of his cabinet, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week, it was announced tonight...
Last week Pierre Laval, slickest collaborationist of them all, talked again with Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain in Randan forest, where they met last fortnight (TIME, April 6). There were the same rumors that Laval brought Adolf Hitler's demands and threats, insisted that the Riom trials be stopped.* Diplomatic circles also heard that Laval appealed to Pétain's friendship by telling him, truly or falsely, that an arch-collaborationist coup d'état was being planned in Paris. Afterward Laval reminded the press that it was he who had instigated French collaboration with...