Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them. Last week for the first time came words so un-French, so very German in accent that the outside world found it hard to believe they came from the mouth of an old fighter for France, Henri Philippe Pétain...
...Franco decided to play put-&-take with his brother-in-law. The then Spanish Foreign Minister, Colonel Juan Beigbeder, was said to have rushed to the Generalissimo in a passion because transit visas through Spain which he had given to Refugee Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo, "I gave my word of honor that they should pass!" Instead, MM. Pierlot and Spaak were...
...After the Armistice, the French Government, headed by Marshal Henri Pétain, moved: 1. To Geneva. 2. To Lyons. 3. To Biarritz. 4. Back to Paris. 5. To Vichy...
...word declaration by Premier Henri Philippe Pétain, Free France got its New Order last week. The 84-year-old Marshal announced that, departing from the "universal bankruptcy of economic liberalism," France would seek a "harmonious combination of authority and liberty." The New Order would ban strikes and lockouts, break power trusts, regulate prices, control foreign commerce and exchange, abolish the gold standard, break away from traditional friendships and enmities, drop the Entente Cordiale with Great Britain, reinstate "true nationalism," base all French foreign relations upon collaboration with Germany...
Amid a burst of flash bulbs at Hollywood's airport, hard-polished blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett embarked on a plane for Reno to divorce Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Gloria Swanson's and her third husband. She gave a farewell kiss to a squinting young man-her eleven-year-old adopted son Peter...