Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signature)" "Don't," the instructions added, "write between the lines." But if letters could not cross the frontier, statesmen could and did. Fortnight ago, first dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, then doddering Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, crossed to Paris to negotiate with Hitler. Last week, Laval, adding Paul Ba'udouin's portfolio of Foreign Affairs to those he already held, made a second trip to Paris, talked long with German civilian and military authorities...
...Washington the State Department waited for a reply from Marshal Henri Philippe Petain to what was virtually a polite ultimatum: if France accepted Adolf Hitler's invitation to "collaborate" with Germany...
Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...
...Dispatched to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, head of France's Vichy Government, a note believed to contain a warning that French territories in this hemisphere would be taken under U. S. protectorship if Vichy and Germany moved against the status quo of those territories...
...next splendid stop was at a French village near Tours. Gracious as King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want...