Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caribbean fell. All next day and into the night the Martiniquais, white & black, celebrated. They skipped and danced along the moonlit, mountain-girt water front of Fort-de-France. In shrill Martinique accents they sang the Marseillaise, cheered the new High Commissioner sent by the French Committee of Liberation, Henri-Etienne Hoppenot, and cursed the departing ruler, Vichyite Admiral Georges Robert. Offshore U.S. freighters, the first in eight months, waited to unload food for the hungry islanders, fuel for autos running on 8% gasoline...
When General Henri HonoréGiraud, his white uniform crinkled, stepped out of the giant C-54 transport at Washington's Bolling Field last week, his squinting eyes focused on a shimmering collection of silver stars and gold braid. Generals and admirals were there in profusion to greet him on his arrival from North Africa-but nary a striped pants diplomat or even a State Department functionary on routine protocol...
...General Henri Honoré Giraud recalled happily in Washington how he renewed an old German acquaintance. A year after he had slipped out of Germany's Königstein prison, he encountered a bunch of prisoners in North Africa, discovered among them his old jailer...
Algiers has been the focus of renascent France ever since General Charles de Gaulle arrived last May to shake the hand of General Henri Honoré Giraud. Last week the affairs of France were in an uneasy state of suspension, and they were no longer focused at Algiers...
...United Nations cause as the first decision nine months ago. Then the U.S. had used turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan on the ground of expediency. Now the U.S. and Britain insisted that control over the French armed forces in North Africa must go to General Henri Honoré Giraud and not to General Charles de Gaulle, on the ground that it would be militarily dangerous to risk a sudden reform in the French army...