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Curiouser & curiouser grew L'Affaire Giraud...
Four weeks after Henri Honore Giraud, Army General, turned up in Switzerland, crossed into Vichyfrance and told of his daring escape from a Nazi prison, some questions were still unanswered...
...mysterious case of France's grey, aging General Henri Honoré Giraud, who was recently rumored to have made an almost incredible escape from a German prison (TIME, May 11), was still unsolved. It was said that he was at liberty in Vichy, had refused to parole himself, but had sworn allegiance to Marshal Pétain and promised not to join the Free French forces. At week's end came another rumor: General Giraud had been arrested in Switzerland for traveling with false papers...
...General Giraud was rushed into the breach at Sedan when the notorious collapse of General André Georges Corap's Ninth Army command was already well under way. Typically, the last message heard from General Giraud before his capture was: "Headquarters surrounded by 100 tanks. Am destroying them...
Fancy Story. General Giraud was imprisoned with many other high French officers in Saxony's grim, moated Königstein Fortress on a mountainside 750 feet above the Elbe. There, it was said last week, he managed to obtain German maps, timetables. From gift boxes he assembled a suit of civilian clothes.* As to the actual escape, stories differed. One version said that for months, when the General and his fellow prisoners were given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed...