Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Herr Vicco Karl von Biilow-Schwante, Germany's Ambassador to Belgium, called upon Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, May 10, in Brussels to deliver Germany's notice of "protection," Mr. Spaak cut him short before he could speak. "I have something to say to you before you begin," said Spaak. "The answer is negative." And he presented the German with a Belgian note of his own. The German insisted that he came only to offer Belgium the "protection" of long-suffering Fuhrer Hitler against "invasion" by France and Great...
...Sweden's popular niece, which is one more tug at Sweden's fearful heart; that Franklin Roosevelt called himself Leopold's "old friend" and sent a message saying the U. S. people were shocked and angry. Now it mattered that King Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri Jean Charles Eugene Denis as Defense Minister when, last year, he reached retirement age. General Denis, from an old military family, was a champion of Belgium's eastern defense line, as against the "fighting retreat" policy and a limited defense of the Scheldt basin; a student of army motorization...
...been two weeks earlier, there was no sign that it might not become acute again at any moment. More & more The Netherlands took on the aspect of an armed camp. With the entire country under martial law, the Army's commander in chief, Lieut. General Henri Gerard Winckelman, clamped down on the hitherto free press, ordered the licensing of publishers and sellers of all printed matter. A license, the General explained, could be considered automatically granted except for publications that "might interfere with the country's safety, political interests or military measures." In other words, newspapers, periodicals...
...Swedish-German National Association, supposedly a non-political society, lists among its members many Swedish leaders, including the brothers General Henri de Champs and Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden...
...sight of students drawing Greek casts in the public library, he decided to study art. After four years of cast-copying and life classes, he got a scholarship at Manhattan's Art Students' League, where he studied under oldtime U. S. Realist John Sloan, Pundits Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. After a fling at commercial art (he once designed advertisements for Pluto Water), he was drafted into the A. E. F. and sent to France, where he drew maps for the Intelligence Corps, spent his spare time wandering through the galleries of Paris. His first sizable chance...