Word: escapists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accepted the Darlan solution. In the minds of many non-Vichy Frenchmen, this had done his reputation much harm; certainly it had made cooperation between him and De Gaulle impossible until the obstacle of Darlan was removed. The Fighting French had hoped to join forces with the popular escapist Giraud, a hope that had been frustrated before they had been able even to establish contact with...
...North Africa. 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...
...Pied Piper" is escapist fare, to be sure, but it'll leave you with the feeling that here, at least, is a movie that recognizes and presents some of the less obvious problems of World...
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...
...Great Escapist. When the story of General Giraud's escape from Konig-stein prison was told last spring it was so fabulously like an Alfred Hitchcock cinema that most observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British...