Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London: adroit René Massigli, a cold, analytical career diplomat who was slow to get off the Vichy wagon but has nevertheless won De Gaulle's confidence. ¶ In Washington: lean, able Henri Bonnet, who put in eleven years with the League of Nations and joined forces with De Gaulle in 1940. He and Mme. Bonnet came to the U.S. that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world...
...seemed only a question of time until all the $17,000,000 worth of Hohenzollern land in Germany would pass out of the family-perhaps, too, the rocky eyrie at Sigmaringen, from which the Hohenzollerns originally came, and which the Nazis, with creditable irony, had assigned to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and other Vichyites as the seat of their "Government in Exile...
...Other groups with the same idea: England's Dolmetsch family, and Henri Casadesus' Societe des Instruments Anciens in Paris, with which Stad studied...
Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
...meet the crisis Premier Pierlot rushed back from his country house to Brussels. From Paris, where he had gone for economic talks, rushed Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. The cabinet met in emergency session. Cried Resistance Chief Demany: "There can be no compromise. . . . Since the Germans were driven out, two traitors have been shot out of 60,000 collaborators arrested. Now in one day we have four patriots killed by the police. That is the score-two traitors and four patriots! . . . We must not have a revolution. But we must have a succession of evolutions until we achieve...