Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That evening old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain held a Cabinet meeting to consider the arrangements Pierre Laval had made. Laval appeared tired and anxious. Everything had been prepared, he explained. Hitler and Ribbentrop would be present at the ceremony in Les Invalides. Marshal Petain, as Chief of State, would also attend, as of course would he, Laval, as Foreign Minister. There would be a French guard of honor, as well as a German one. The ceremony would seal the rapprochement between France and Germany...
Divorced. Constance Bennett, blonde cinemanikin; from Henri ("Hank"), Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, lately a member of the French fighting forces; in Reno...
Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain acted fast and with surprising firmness. Calling Vice Premier Pierre Laval from Paris, he convened his Cabinet and with it composed the following communique concerning the Lorrainers' evacuation...
Divorced. Dorothy Gould Baer Guisan, daughter of muchmarried Frank Jay Gould, granddaughter of famed Financier Jay Gould; by Lieut. Colonel Henri Louis Guisan, son of General Henri Guisan, Commander in Chief of Switzerland's Army; at Lucerne, Switzerland...
Died. Johan Egbert Frederik de Kok, 58, general managing director of Royal Dutch Co. (successor to the late, great Henri Deterding), able amateur flier; of heart disease; at The Hague...