Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of Adolf Hitler's new demands had come at last. They were not made public but their general tenor was known. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain learned of them by telephone from his Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon. They were harsher than the old Marshal had expected. Not only did Hitler want the restitution of Pierre Laval to power to insure the "collaboration" he demands, not only did he want passage for German troops across Tunisia for an attack on the British in Libya (TIME, Feb. 3), but he also now wanted to occupy Mediterranean...
...Henri Focillon, French art historian, has been appointed research fellow in residence at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and collection, at Georgetown, Washington, D. C., effective as of December 1, 1940. Professor Focillon was formerly professor of Medieval Art at the universities of Paris and Lyon, formerly director of Lyon Museum and formerly professor of The Fine Arts at Yale University. The Dumbarton Oaks Library and collection was recently conveyed to Harvard by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
Today's conference in Paris among Admiral Francois Darlan, special emissary of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the Pro-German Laval and Hitler's personal envoy, Otto Abetz, was said to have "practically ended" the 50-day old crisis in French-German relations...
...cold, cheerless onetime health resort which is now the capital of unoccupied France, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain last week proceeded with the construction of a state designed to suit both him and Adolf Hitler. After weeks of shuffling with names, Chief of State Petain announced the personnel of his National Council, a consultative chamber with a corporative look about it. Sixty-eight of the 188 members were onetime members of Parliament-Rightists and renegade Leftists. The rest included industrialists, shipowners, churchmen, war veterans, scientists, artists, artisans, miners, seamen, one Negro...
Vichy was snowbound. The worst blizzard in 50 years swept over the provisional capital of France, blocked the roads, tied up the railways. Snow fell on the Sévignè Pavilion, where Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 84, awaited the coming of U. S. Ambassador William Daniel Leahy. It piled in high drifts in the nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol...