Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...34th; and the 1st Armored Division, which have not been heard from since they fought Arnim south of Bizerte. There was Lieut. General George Patton's great Seventh Army-three infantry divisions, an airborne division and an armored division thoroughly experienced in overwater invasion. There were also General Henri Honore Giraud's 200,000 Frenchmen, equipped with U.S. weapons, ready and eager to fight for the liberation of France...
Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud; they had, they said, a very pleasant chat. Generals de Gaulle and Giraud studied the various terms of recognition, then replied in kind...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...
...Allies, moving slowly toward unanimous recognition of the Committee of Liberation at Algiers, the French last week made plain their own unity. Wrote Henri Giraud to Charles de Gaulle...
Married. Captain Henri Giraud, son of General Henri Honore Giraud, officer in the Ninth Chasseurs d'Afrique; and Jacqueline Manuel, daughter of French North African colonials; in Algiers...