Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging In. As important as the statement on colonies was President Truman's action toward France. To the White House from San Francisco came youthful French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. After 30 minutes they left beaming...
Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp...
...Salzburg rushed a Cabinet deputation, joined by Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, breathless from his dash home from the San Francisco Conference. Leopold's brother, the Regent Prince Charles, also went along. Spaak urged Fabian tactics: the Socialists wanted Leopold to abdicate, the Liberals wanted him to rule-might it not be better for the King to prolong his exile just a little longer until Belgians could make up their minds...
...Henri Philippe Petain, Hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and Chief of State of Vichyfrance, was home again. It was his 89th birthday. With German permission, through the Swiss Government, the Marshal had offered to surrender himself to the French Government of General Charles de Gaulle and to stand trial for high treason. The offer had been accepted...
...silence to put the old man under arrest. A Swiss Guard of Honor presented arms. But French troops presented reversed arms (rifle butts upward), a gesture of dishonor. The old Marshal doffed his hat, offered to shake hands with General Koenig. The General stiffly declined. Quietly, in the twilight, Henri Petain boarded a special train for Paris...