Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reynaud on Force. Monger or not, little Paul Reynaud talked aggressive war as his regime, its working Chamber majority upped from one to 17 by belated switched votes and given the tardy blessing of the sulky Right by an accolade from L'Epoque Editor Henri de Kérillis, went into its second week. To London Premier Reynaud flew for a meeting of the Allied Supreme War Council, where tougher tactics toward all neutrals-and that went for the U. S. S. R.-were agreed upon...
...crammed to overflowing with a first rate loan exhibition of U. S. art and a selection of 50 paintings from its own permanent collection. Since 1928 the Association and the University of Nebraska (together spending some $5,000 a year) have bought from similar shows the work of Robert Henri, John Steuart Curry, Charles Sheeler, Grant Wood, Morris Kantor, Leon Kroll, Edward Hopper, William Glackens, Reginald Marsh, many another artist...
England's treatment of her "conchies" is in strong contrast with France's. Many a French pacifist is now in jail, including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...
When the Marquis de Lafayette paid his final visit to the U. S. in 1825, the hawk-nosed old hero was persuaded to sit for a new type of life mask, the invention of a young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made a widely .acclaimed bust. That gave him a grand idea: do the same by every American great and near great, get Congress to house his busts in a national gallery. Till he died of cholera nine years later, Browere worked busily toward his goal. But Congress never, built the gallery...
...Southern China the Japanese Army recklessly bombed the French-owned Yunnan-Indo-China railroad. French Ambassador to Tokyo Charles Arsène-Henri protested the loss of five French lives; and the U. S. Government made representations against this interference with the last railroad carrying American goods into China. Japan's answer was to bomb the line again. Japanese forces claimed great victories around Nanning. But meantime, for the first time since the war began, a Japanese had courage enough to stand up on his feet and criticize the Army not on minor points of procedure...