Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they arrived-Premier Hubert Pierlot, Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, two others-they faced a King who was agitated and harassed, with tears in his eyes. Latest military reports, said the King, showed that the Belgian Army was bearing the brunt of the German attack. Behind it the British and French were already backing toward the Channel. Further resistance would not save Belgium. In his opinion, King Leopold said, the Belgian Army should withdraw from...
...closest friends and the tutor of his children. But the most significant influence on his policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army officers called General Van Overstraeten "vice...
...General Henri Gerard Winkelman, Commander in Chief of the Dutch armed forces, made the announcement in the absence of Queen Wilhelmina and Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, who had fled to England...
Shining symbol of French courage and resistance is aged Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, who not only repelled the Germans at Verdun in 1916 but restored the spirit of victory in the French Forces in the dark days of '17. More than once in the past five troubled years the old man has been talked of as the man to rally a united France. Times had never been worse than they were last week when the legendary defender of France, firm and erect at 83, returned from his Ambassadorship to Spain to become Vice Premier in Paul...
...last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch defense system stood ready and the men in it, commanded by hard-bitten old General Henri Gerard Winckelman, had their...