Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy collaboration came to a crisis. From the nearby listening post of Berne, Switzerland, it was reported that Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain would soon go to Paris to sign a document that already bore the signature of Adolf Hitler...
...record, it did not seem last week that Vichy would have much trouble replacing General Huntziger. Likely successor: General Henri Ferdinand Dentz, onetime Commander in Chief in Syria, a good friend to the Axis...
From Vichy old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain broadcast an appeal to the people of France. In his tired, halting voice he begged: "Frenchmen, your duty is clear -put an end to this butchery. Do not let more evil be done in France." Frenchmen who illegally tuned in the BBC broadcast from London heard an other radio appeal. General Charles de Gaulle asked his countrymen not to kill Germans "in the present circumstances. ..." Instead he asked all Frenchmen to join a general strike, to spend five minutes this Friday in silence and "scornful meditation...
FranÇois Darlan began a new series of talks with the Nazis. While Germany and France were still technically at war, they were about to exchange envoys, the Nazis sending consuls not only to Paris, but to Lyon and Marseille as well. And Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally did something about the men whom Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort...
Into Manhattan's plushy La Rue restaurant went the ex-Countess Margot de la Falaise (exwife of Count Alain, brother of Marquis Henri, ex of Gloria Swanson. Constance Bennett), together with Dukie, her bulldog, Paul O. Buckley, her husband of three days, and four friends. Because Dukie was charged $3 for a dinner which she thought he didn't get, she slapped the proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live...