Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of his own Socialist party, Senator Henri Rolin, stubbornly fighting Minister of Justice Adolphe van Glabbeke over a secondary juridical matter, who brought about the downfall of Premier van Acker's Government. When Van Acker demanded a vote of confidence, hotheaded Rolin and two other Socialists abstained, and the Government was overthrown 79-to-78. Smiling Achille beamed: "I am the happiest of men; all my worries are over...
...M.R.P.'s Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen, a legendary figure (known as "Tristan") in the Resistance, put the anti-Red case in even more fundamental terms: "Between us and materialist Communism there is no possibility of any sort of a pact...
...Henri-Philippe Pétain turned 90 in his island prison off the Brittany coast, looked so fit to his doctor that he was judged capable of attaining...
...France's Henri Bonnet: "Good timbre, best voice...
Poland, of course, sided with Russia. France's suavely soothing Henri Bonnet gave Russia some unexpected comfort by observing that it would be setting a possibly embarrassing precedent to deprive a small nation of her right to withdraw a complaint against a big nation. But his colleagues were in no mood for compromise...