Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aged Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, a Hitler tantrum was scarcely less embarrassing than the trial. No one seemed to know just why the trial was allowed to continue. But it did. Three generals testified that lack of French aviation was "stupefying"; that the "Sitzkrieg" had been "a period of stagnation"; that the press had undermined morale; that lack of liaison between air and army forces led to tragic blunders...
...figures. He harked back to 1934 "when they [Army officials] ordered altogether seven tanks at the time when Germany was turning them out by mass production." He admitted mistakes, delays and errors common to all democracies, but in a fury charged once again that reactionary militarists, typified by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain himself, were responsible for the defeat of France's Armies...
...been informed of this traffic. Already there were signs that the U.S. State Department, which has long given Vichy the benefit of enormous doubts, was undergoing a change of heart. Under Secretary Sumner Welles summoned Vichy's Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye for a stern talk, later denied that the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (TIME, Jan. 5) would cause the U.S. to invoke the Declaration of Havana. He implied that, although the Free French could be told to quit the islands while relations with Vichy remained tense, the U.S. had no idea of telling them...
...behind his lecturer's desk at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, the speaker introduced his subject as a product of the subconscious ("the earliest form of surrealism"), argued its artistic kinship to the creations of Authors Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, James Joyce, Painters Renoir, Salvador Dali, Henri Rousseau ("the customs inspector who created things of beauty without knowing just how"). He was talking about jazz...
...silver-haired Elie Lescot,† negotiated this loan himself last spring, when he was still Minister to the U.S. Longtime (1922-30) Minister of Education & Agriculture, he has for years taken a keen interest in developing new farm products and markets for his small, crowded, beautiful country. His son Henri studied agriculture at Cornell University in 1937-39, has successfully cultivated in Haiti large areas of lemon grass (source of citral for synthetic violet scent, used mainly in cheap soaps...