Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still others, a ratlike scurry across the Mediterranean to the side of Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
Victim. The Pétain regime allowed French industry, wealth and manpower to be siphoned into the Third Reich. History will decide whether Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aided Hitler deliberately or not. Last week the question, like his regime, seemed unimportant...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, cautious but lifelong royalist sympathizer, remained in Vichy as monarchism's chief hedge against Axis victory...
...Then, in an announcement broadcast by the Algiers radio, he took over the civil administration of the colonies in the name of Marshal Pétain-and with the approval of the U.S. authorities. He set up his own military command under the stanch old soldier and escapist General Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under this former collaborator with Germany-in the rear...
There were two men who knew more about this than anyone else. One was the French Pretender himself. Slender, sharp-nosed, soft-chinned Henri de Bourbon-Orléans, Comte de Paris, 34, was last week, as French law requires of pretenders, in exile. This descendant of the effulgent Bourbon kings through Louis Philippe d'Orléans was biding his time in a sprawling white villa in the quiet little Spanish Moroccan port of Larache, only 600 miles from the headquarters of U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower...