Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President also: >Talked to a military mission representing North Africa's General Henri Giraud, and announced that he would "soon" be visited by Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle, on the question of French military and political unity...
Unity at Last. There was one man on whom the Fighting French, the British and the U.S. could agree. General Henri Honore Giraud, the old escapist, had been picked for this role before the U.S. forces landed, but when he reached North Africa Darlan was there ahead of him and he had voluntarily yielded to Darlan. Now it was a question whether those North African leaders who had remained loyal to Darlan and Vichy would accept Giraud as their chief...
...Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, French statesman and political writer...
...Since Chambord never actually ruled, TIME assumed that the Comte de Paris would, if crowned, be known as Henri V; but if he wants to be Henri VI, then-Henri V is dead, long live Henri VI (if there ever is such a thing...
...argument in favor of its application in North Africa ran as follows: the U.S. had hoped to deal with General Henri Honore Giraud, but, when the time came, his name spelled little magic with civil and military leaders in North Africa. Crafty Admiral Jean Francois Darlan -either by accident or design-was on the spot: it was he who issued the cease-firing order, it was he who promised to deliver Dakar (capture of which, in the estimates of some U.S. officials, might have sacrificed 40,000 lives...