Henry de Kérillis

Henry de Kérillis (or Henri ) (October 27th 1889 with Vertheuil-in-Medoc - 1958) was a Journaliste and a Politician French of the right national of the Entre-deux-guerres.

Biographical elements

It was Député of the the Seine, editor association of the Echo of Paris (nationalist newspaper barrésien), founder of the Journal " the Time in 1937 and leader-writer with the newspaper of the French of America For the victory .

Starting from 1936, this old normalien denounces the Nazisme and, in December 1936, the illusion of those which believe that Adolf Hitler will not make that the war in the East. In the Time , it signs many articles where it denounces " the Anti-semitism, cement of the dictatures" and one entitled book French publishes, here the war! (1938).

In October 1938, it is one of those which refuse to approve the Accords of Munich and declares with the House of Commons that “This peace (…) devote the triumph of Hitler (…) who will establish, without obstacle from now on and by stages striking down, his hegemony on Europe (…) I think that our duty with us is not to follow enthusiasms, certainly comprehensible, but sometimes ill-considered of crowd. It is to point out hard realities of the historical experiment to them”.

The Ressentiment of Henry de Kérillis with regard to the Germany plunges its roots in the First World War. Officer, it had ordered the flotilla C 66, doing this one one of the first escadrilles of bombardment of the history. He had directed, on order, several raids of reprisals in reaction to German bombardments on French cities. What was worth to him to be persona non grata in Germany during the inter-war period.

In 1940, the Time is suspended. De Kérillis joined London then but its positions do not agree with those of the Général de Gaulle. It leaves to then for New York to the the United States where it writes French , here the truth .

Praise of the de Gaulle general to anti-gaullisme

Defending of the ideas close to those of the US government at the time, its articles in the newspaper of the French of America For the victory constitute a praise of the Résistance and the de Gaulle general.

In 1943, whereas the French communities of America tear between giraudists and Gaulliste S, it begs the two generals to get along and to be linked. It finishes, also, by taking party to him while giving its support for Giraud, deploring, according to its words, “the intransigence” which seems to him to come especially “from the general installed to London rather than of Algiers”.

When de Gaulle asserts himself finally, it makes titrate “French people will repudiate”, affirming that the concentration of the civil capacities and soldiers between the hands of the General is contrary with the democratic principles. Within the newspaper and, between De Gaulle and Kérillis, the rupture is decisive.

De Kérillis will dedicate from now on to the de Gaulle general a wild hatred. In an allusion to this last, he still writes: “What the marshal Pétain did, on the wounded body of the Republic, other soldiers could be tried to do it in the future, while misusing their prestige or of the armed force which was entrusted to them. ”

Moreover, it is ulcerated by the presence of the Communiste S in the provisional government. It reproaches them for having approved the Pacte germano-Soviet and to have refused to serve in the French Army .

After the capture of his/her son by the French Militia, followed its death, it blames the personal liabilities of the de Gaulle general and writes a violent one article, entitled Pétain did better , which is not finally published.

Its sorrow and its resentment were summarized in its book published in 1945 and entitled De Gaulle dictator .

Ulcerated and inconsolable, he refused to return in France and withdrew himself in his farm of the Long Island where he died the April 11th 1958.

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