Henri Calloc'h de Kérillis (27 October 1889 – 11 April 1958) was a French aviator, reporter, writer and politician.

He was hostile to the parties that favored appeasement of Germany in the lead-up to World War II, and went into exile rather than be arrested after the armistice of July 1940.

In June 1916 he led a reprisal raid on Karlsruhe killing 117 defenseless people, including 30 men, 5 women and 82 children.

[1] He participated in a mission led by Gaston Gradis to cross the Sahara from Colomb-Béchar in Algeria to Savé in Dahomey (now Benin) between 15 November and 3 December 1924.

He recorded his experiences and views in Du Pacifique à la mer Morte (From the Pacific to the Dead Sea), Faisons le point (Taking Stock) and L'Italie nouvelle (The New Italy).

As early as April 1920, in an article in l'Écho de Paris he pointed out the danger of German civil aviation, which had not been mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles but could easily be converted for use in transport and bombing.

During the Italian invasion of Ethiopia (October 1935 to May 1936), de Kérillis strongly opposed Édouard Herriot, who supported the Ethiopians and had pro-Communist views.

[9] He saw racism as the new ideology of totalitarian regimes, and called it "le ciment des dictatures" in a November 1938 article in l'Époque.

[10] However, he supported Benito Mussolini, noting that his Fascism did not discriminate on the basis of race or religion, as Nazism did and that many Jews had joined the party.

[11] During the Spanish Civil War (July 1936 to April 1939), he considered that France should have helped General Franco to prevent him from having to become aligned with Germany and Italy.

After a vigorous campaign, Raynaud and de Kérillis were beaten in the second round by a list headed by the communist Jacques Duclos.

His main activity was in foreign affairs, where he was against the pacifist policy of the left-wing Popular Front, and expressed concern about France's military weakness.

By 1940 he was in favor of a broad coalition of states in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, including the USSR, to preserve the peace.

In a January 1940 debate, he opposed expelling communists from parliament, calling those who supported the measure defeatist and pro-German.

[1] Geneviève Tabouis, a friend of the Roosevelts and passionate anti-Nazi, created a weekly journal Pour la victoire (For Victory) that first appeared in January 1942.

[14] The turning point came when de Gaulle began to assume total control of the Free French movement, both military and political, starting with his attacks on General Henri Giraud in North Africa.

In it he accused de Gaulle of having lost sight of his first objective of liberating France in favor of his personal political ambitions.

"[14] De Kérillis chose voluntary exile in the United States after the war rather than return to a France "humiliated and enslaved by her new masters.