Word: henry
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
France. The best-known rebel in Europe was saved from death. Young Paul Collette, who in Paris six weeks ago wounded Pierre Laval and Marcel Déat, was condemned to death by a Vichy court. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Many observers of Vichy thought that the Marshal, knowing the rebellious temper of suppressed French millions, was too shrewd to risk the execution of a boy who had tried to kill two of Hitler's best French friends...
Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aired his gift for soft phrase: "In the past," he said, "France was divided into two camps-Capital and Labor. But today we propose to install harmony and understanding between these groups. ..." His totalitarian meaning was clear. He was busy installing, drawing up plans for a corporative state in the Italian style...
...Feller, 22, who had passed his physical examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same day the burial place chosen by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was announced: the tomb at Douaumont where Verdun's unknown war dead...
...Germans warned that "all classes" of Parisians were subject to reprisals. That night the Germans surprised Parisian saboteurs wrecking Army trucks in a garage. The saboteurs escaped. The next day the Germans shot ten "Communists," the following day twelve other men. France's limp, aged Marshal Henri Philippe Petain took to the air, urged his people to complete submission to Germany for their own good...
...From the files of General Henri Fernand Dentz, former Vichy commander in Syria who was sent home last week, the British took telegrams which proved beyond question that Vichy had collaborated with the German Army. One telegram, signed by Minister of War General Charles Huntziger, read...