Word: henried
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure Mexico City's Hatmaker Henri Chatillon will be interested to learn that he is not the originator of tortilla hats [TIME...
...tired, ailing M. Auriol, most of the faces were familiar. Socialist Jules Moch, who had tried unsuccessfully to form the new government, was again the Minister of Interior. The M.R.P.'s able, courageous Robert Schuman, an ex-Premier himself, had been retained as Foreign Minister. The Radicals' Henri Queuille, Premier of the previous government, was kept on as Vice Premier. The Peasant Party's Maurice Petsche remained as Minister of Finance. In all, ten members of the Queuille government had places in the new regime...
...Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, now president of the Council of Europe's Assembly, who had hitherto been mild on the subject of Leopold, called the Leopold-Eyskens agreement "sheer political folly." If the King got less than 55% of the votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...
After the resignation (TIME, Oct. 17) of the Radicals' Henri Queuille (because of Socialist contumacy), President of the Republic Vincent Auriol had called on Socialist Jules Moch, a hard-hitting Minister of Interior in the Queuille regime, to see what he could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals...
This coalition had appeared to be in danger ever since the resignation of Premier Henri Queuille on October 5: the efforts successively of Jules Moch, Socialist, and Rene Mayer, Radical Socialist, to form acceptable governments had failed...