Word: fernande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case, materiel was still hopping across Syria, and the French in Syria showed signs of being hopping mad. Some were angry at the British for bombing Syrian airports. General Henri Fernand Dentz, who is supposed to bear the British a grudge because it was his unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife...
Last week, on Manhattan's 57th Street, four of the leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally...
...know such eminent U. S. citizens as John D. Rockefeller Jr. (who restored much of Versailles), General John J. Pershing (whose statue stands at Versailles) and Mrs. Harrison Williams ("best-dressed U. S. woman"). As a Senator he was active in the France-Germany Committee, of which Fernand de Brinon and Otto Abetz were leaders. All three became Ambassadors after the Franco-German Armistice: Abetz became Germany's Ambassador to Paris, De Brinon Vichy's Ambassador to Paris, Henry-Haye Vichy's Ambassador...
...Paris he talked to Hitler's Abetz again. He talked to Laval and to Fernand de Brinon, Vichy's Ambassador to Paris and Laval's man. Laval, playing for all or nothing, flatly refused the Marshal's offer. If he had expected the Germans to force him on Vichy, he was disappointed. Admiral Darlan had apparently persuaded Herr Abetz of his own worth as a collaborator, and he returned again to Vichy with the blessing of Herr Abetz and his boss. The Paris radio began praising Darlan and the German radio complimented Marshal Petain...
...terms of Adolf Hitler's new demands had come at last. They were not made public but their general tenor was known. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain learned of them by telephone from his Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon. They were harsher than the old Marshal had expected. Not only did Hitler want the restitution of Pierre Laval to power to insure the "collaboration" he demands, not only did he want passage for German troops across Tunisia for an attack on the British in Libya (TIME, Feb. 3), but he also now wanted to occupy Mediterranean...