Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army of liberation was the crucial problem last week in Algiers. General Charles de Gaulle had stood adamantly for: 1) a purge of ex-Vichyite officers; 2) a modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud together again...
...Giraud he made many a trip between Algiers and London before the two French leaders finally met. French men have known him as a many-sided, yet singleminded, person-a lover of Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles de Gaulle mon cher after he quit the Vichyfrench governorship of Indo-China and joined the Fighting French. Now, under Georges Catroux's amiable pipe smoke, and with the help...
Next day the Committee's 13 members (the 14th member, Henri Bonnet, was en route from the U.S.) held their first plenary session, agreed on procedure, began discussions. The event was important, for it helped to clear a stifled political atmosphere, shifted emphasis from single personalities to group judgments. Said one pleased committeeman: "A democratic institution has been born...
This hard fact dominated last week's parleys in Algiers, at which Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honore Giraud hammered out the mold of a new, united France. Through De Gaullism the people of France struck a blow for themselves and a blow against secret diplomacy. Neither General Giraud, whose authority in North Africa had been recognized by the U.S. and Great Britain while De Gaulle fretted in London, nor U.S. Minister Robert D. Murphy, who has a distaste for both De Gaulle and De Gaullism, dared to flout their will...
With no Gallic kiss, but a handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united...