Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent a message recalling the old motto of the First French Republic, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," to Henri Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, in returning a New Year's greeting...
...Died. Henri Bergson, 81, French philosopher, member of the French Academy, Nobel Prizewinner; in Paris. Last month Professor Bergson, whose philosophy of "creative evolution" had an enormous vogue before World War I, rose from his bed, declining the Vichy Government's offered exemption, renounced his honors and posts, went to register...
They Met on Skis (C. L Import Corp.) is this winter's skiing film and was shot by Austrian Producer Henri Sokal whose Slalom and Ski Chase were the ski films of previous winters. Filmed in the fall of 1939 in the French and Swiss Alps, it is loaded with clear, fast shots of some of the world's finest skiers-the women's team of the Paris Ski Club, French International Racing Champion Louis Agnel-careening down mountainsides, whizzing through the frosty air. A silly boy-girl-mortgage plot clumps knee-deep through the snow scenes...
...Government of Germany learned last week what the people of France have gradually learned since the Armistice of June 22: that France's Chief of State is no stooge of Adolf Hitler, of Pierre Laval, or of anybody else. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician. Last week his political tactics seemed about to get France into big, bad trouble with her conquerors...
Declining the Vichy Government's proffered exemption from its rule that all Jews must surrender State positions, tiny, 81-year-old Philosopher Henri Bergson, member of the French Academy, Nobel Prizeman, author of the theory of creative evolution, resigned from the faculty of the College de France, where he had lectured since...