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...violence. Highways have been blocked, and government officials have been locked up in their offices by angry steel workers. In the ugliest incident so far, seven riot policemen were wounded by rifle fire two weeks ago as they tried to control a rock-hurling mob in the town of Denain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Steel, Surgery and Survival | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...Gaston Henri Gustave Billotte, 65, pre-war Military Governor of Paris, Commander of the First French Army in Flanders; in an auto accident while commanding his troops. Hugo Hesketh Hughes, 38, 2nd lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, seven-goal British polo star; in action in Flanders. Jacques and Jean Denain, aviator sons of former Air Minister French General Victor Leon Ernest Denain; shot down returning from air raids over Germany. Sir Henry George Alan Percy, 27, Ninth Duke of Northumberland, England's largest coal owner (1939 income: $345,000); in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

That the French Cabinet of Premier Blum took most seriously last week a warning by its Secret Service that the Italians may simply seize the railway if they cannot get stock control, was said in Paris to be shown by. the fact that experienced French General Victor Denain was sent rushing to Djibouti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: High-Grade Lowdown | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...General Victor Denain, non-Parliamentarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dawn Cabinet | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Even after all these things are arranged General Denain's work in Italy will not be finished. On Lake Garda Benito Mussolini operates the finest training school for high-speed flying in the world. His official visit ended. Air Minister Denain will spend several days at this and other Italian training schools to see if there are any new wrinkles to be picked up to teach his own blue-clad cadets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Denain to Rome | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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