Word: giraudous
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...Allied headquarters of General Dwight Eisenhower. There, in two years of close cooperation, they became "Mac" and "Ike." Macmillan, who was taught French by his mother before he spoke English, was given a large measure of credit for patching up the truce between the feuding French Generals Giraud and De Gaulle. He moved on to head the Allied Control Commission in Italy, where he conducted the negotiations with Italy's Marshal Badoglio. Late in the war Macmillan was sent to Greece to mediate in the savage civil war; he installed as Regent the bearded Archbishop Damaskinos, who held Greece...
Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil was a leading member of France's financial aristocracy. He was also a devious politician who was pro-Fascist before the war, but later, as a top adviser of General Giraud, helped arrange for the Allied landings in North Africa. In hate-filled Morocco, where his peanut-oil business was based, Lemaigre-Dubreuil believed in a moder ate policy of "evolutionary autonomy" as a matter of hardheaded self-interest...
...power, Macmillan, at 46, at last got his first post, No. 2 in the Ministry of Supply. Two years later, he was in North Africa as Churchill's Minister Resident and political troubleshooter. There he helped negotiate the settlement between France's Generals de Gaulle and Giraud, and became a good friend of Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower. With his "American connection," and acquaintanceships begun in North Africa, he feels a confident ease about relations with Washington. "We have been through it all together before," says Macmillan...
...Lyautey, took command of the French 15th Motorized Division in Belgium, helped cover the Allied retreat to Dunkirk, was surrounded by Hitler's panzers, fought until his division ran out of ammunition, was finally taken prisoner. Held in the fortress of Königstein (from which General Henri Giraud escaped) until July 1941, when the Germans released him in the belief that he would help Vichy defend its territory against Anglo-American attack. Took command of Vichy forces in North Africa, and after putting up some resistance against the Western Allies in 1942, joined them along with Darlan...
...concourse's walls are lined with shops where the Pentagonian can buy a uniform or a brassiére, a bestseller or a funeral wreath, a birthday cake or a railroad ticket, get a haircut or a loan. Once a guiding officer boasted to visiting General Henri Giraud that the Pentagon office girl could buy both a wedding ring and a baby carriage within its walls. The Frenchman asked: "Which do they buy first...