Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, materiel was still hopping across Syria, and the French in Syria showed signs of being hopping mad. Some were angry at the British for bombing Syrian airports. General Henri Fernand Dentz, who is supposed to bear the British a grudge because it was his unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife...
...evening the aged voice of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain crackled for two brief minutes out of the little radio cabinets in French parlors and shops: Frenchmen: You have learned that Admiral Dorian recently conferred with Chancellor Hitler. I had approved this meeting in principle. The new interview Permits us to light up the road into the future and to continue the conversations that had been begun with the German Government. It is no longer a question today of public opinion, often uneasy and badly informed, being able to estimate the chances we are taking or measure the risks...
...Western Europe, Germany marched toward bloodless victories. With no fear of British reprisals, Unoccupied France turned over a sizable part of its shipping to help get the Germans to North Africa (see p. 23). Adolf Hitler sent a note to Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. France's earnest Catholic Chief of State, drafted a decree which he hopes will keep French home fires banked if not burning...
...press met him again, Mr. Hull made two points, both again demonstrating the world range of U.S. interests: 1) the Russian-Yugoslav friendship pact was encouraging (this little bouquet was the second handed the Soviet Union by the State Department in three weeks); 2) a statement by Marshal Henri Pétain, chief of France-that France's honor required that she take no action against a former ally-was important. The two diplomatic words, "encouraging" and "important," meant vastly more than they seemed to mean. Apparently U.S. diplomatic cultivation of Moscow and Vichy also was at last bearing...