Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Henri Pétain of Verdun and Vichy, now serving a life term for collaborating with the Nazis, was reported looking poorly. But when a Chamber of Deputies committee tried to question the old soldier about his War II activities, he got his back up. "I know nothing," he gruffed. "I am 92 years old. If you want to question me on the war of 1914-18, I can answer you. I won that...
Doubts of le Peré Noël. Gallic skepticism had not gone to sleep. Henri Clery, 48, who rents boats on the Seine at the St. Cloud bridge, scratched his unshaven chin. "It seems too good to be true," he said. "But does Mr. Marshall really speak for all Americans? You know, I stopped believing in le peré Noël a long time...
...went to King's College, London, although the story still lingers that he entered England as a rug peddler, smuggling in his three-year-old son in a carpet. In any case, Gulbenkian early made himself a useful agent in the Near East for the late Sir Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch-Shell's head...
Chen is not a man with his eyes shut running rapidly backward to 500 B.C. He reads, and admires, philosophers of change, especially Henri Bergson. But Chen insists that since billions of Chinese people have carried on the world's most stable society on Confucian principles, those principles must be reapplied, not abandoned. Confucius said: "A river, like truth, flows forever and will have no end." Chen does not want the continuity of Chinese society submerged under Western ideas of individualism or materialism...
...Foreign Policy (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC). French Ambassador Henri Bonnet, in a discussion of France Between Two Worlds...