Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the date mocked General Henri Fernand Dentz, for it was Bastille Day. As he took up the pen his throat must have worked. Last year he signed Paris away to the conquering Nazis. Now, as Vichy's High Commissioner to the Levant States, he was about to sign Syria away to the conquering British and, even worse, to the conquering Free French. General Dentz, who rather resembles a provincial druggist in uniform, sighed and signed his full name...
Despite the generosity of the original British terms, the neck-in-noose Government at Vichy bleated of dishonor, made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap. After thanking the Vichy forces who took part in the campaign, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain declared to Syria's civilians: "France is going to suffer an eclipse in the Levant...
...Born. To Henri, Count of Paris, France's Bourbon-Orleans pretender, and Isabelle of Orleans & Bragance: twins, Michel and Jacques, their seventh and eighth children; in French Morocco...
Young Segura may be no Perry, Craw ford or Von Cramm, but he is the most fascinating foreigner to invade U.S. tennis courts since dazzling Henri Cochet. Like Cochet, Segura picked up the game as ball boy: at Ecuador's swank Guayaquil Tennis Club. Small and puny, he found two hands better than one, never gave up his ten-fingered grip...
...Sidon there was plenty of bloodshed. The Australians took it, lost it when Vichy's General Henri Fernand Dentz (who last year surrendered Paris) furiously counterattacked, took it again. While British naval units poured fire into Sidon, they were attacked by Axis bombers, and Nazis claimed a direct hit on a heavy cruiser. Vichy boasted it had dive-bombed two British destroyers and crippled them. Australian fighters shot down three German Junkers 88s with Italian markings, sent presumably from Dodecanesan Rhodes. After Sidon, the Australian troops pressed on up the coast to the outskirts of Beirut, at which...