Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-awaited negotiations between the Fighting French, backed by Britain, and General Henri Giraud, backed by the U.S., began in North Africa last week. In the preliminaries, the Fighting French were represented by able General Georges Catroux, commander in Syria and Lebanon. But De Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, announced in a broadcast to Occupied France that he himself would soon leave London to meet and confer with that "great soldier and noble figure," General Henri Honore Giraud. Together, said De Gaulle, "we will seek and find means of assuring that the French Empire shall be one Empire, that French...
...commanded the French troops in North Africa-but he did so under the resented direction and authority of Darlan. He loomed as the likeliest alternative to Darlan-but Darlan admitted no alternative while he lived. People in the U.S. and Great Britain had about decided to write off Henri Giraud...
...Fighting French memorandum which proposed the basis of an operational union. In that speech Giraud promised liberated Frenchmen that they could, if they chose, revive the Third Republic. He announced the abrogation of Vichy's anti-Jewish laws. Last week posters portraying the weary features of Marshal Henri Petain were torn from the walls of public buildings. Not all traces of Vichy were expunged, but there was enough progress to set the stage for a De Gaulle-Giraud conference...
...Murphy's coat pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just before he left for Tunisia, when he said...
ALFIERS--Gen. Henri Honore Giraud and Gen. George Catroux, Fighting French liaison officers, are discussing three possible forms of a provisional French unity government, it was disclosed authoritatively today...