Word: henry
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Born. To Lieut. Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 27, only son of General de Gaulle, wartime Free French naval air ace, and Henriette Marie Josephe Clemence de Montalembert de Gaulle, 20, daughter of one of France's first families: their first child, a son (the General's first grandchild); in Dijon. Name: Charles...
...French film director who said that spoke from experience: he had worked with Painter Matisse on a movie short, A Visit with Henri Matisse, that had Manhattan theatergoers gaping last week...
Last week France had its fourth government in seven weeks. A small but revealing fact in the situation was that the new Premier, Dr. Henri Queuille, who had been active in French politics since 1914 and a cabinet minister 22 times, was unknown in the U.S. Very few Americans could make more than a stab at pronouncing his name...
...check with French police showed that the tipsters knew what they were talking about. During the war Jacques de Bernonville was propaganda director under Marshal Henri Pétain and a director of operations against the French underground. Furthermore, the French police reported, he had caused the deaths of Frenchmen and other Allied soldiers "probably including Canadians from the Royal Canadian Air Force." That settled Count de Bernonville's appeal for Canadian citizenship. Ottawa ordered him out of the country...
Ernie Bevin still remained chilly. But Paul-Henri Spaak weightily changed his mind, admitted "It is a good idea...