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...mystery of France's big, beloved old General Henri Honoré Giraud was no longer a mystery. When the 63-year-old general said he had escaped from Germany's Königstein fortress-prison by letting his ponderous body down 60 feet of self-made rope (TIME, May 11), the out-side world raised an eyebrow, suspected that Germany might have some use for a great French hero of both World Wars...
...when he reached Vichy he found a France quite unlike anything he had heard about within Königstein's walls. Marshal Pétain embraced him, then gave him a paper to sign, which among other things pledged him never to take up arms against Germany. General Giraud balked. Then Pierre Laval slyly suggested that the general could do France a mighty service by offering to return to prison in exchange for 400,000 married French war prisoners. General Giraud was amenable until he met Laval's bosses, the Nazi occupation authorities in Paris. Then he blew...
...General Giraud, and his case, rested...
Married. Beatrice Clough Rathbone. U.S. -born member of the House of Commons; and Captain Paul Herve Giraud Wright of the King's Royal Rifle Corps; she for the second time; in London...
...iron-grey, stooped General Giraud's own account, he had done all these things. As if there weren't enough mystery already, Giraud's status grew even cloudier after he crossed into Vichyfrance...