Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation was worst in France. From Premier Henri Queuille down, few seemed to have been spared. Two hundred Paris cops were on sick leave. In the Rhone Valley, 100,000 people were flat on their backs. In Alengon, schools had to be closed for want of teachers and pupils. Chief Flu-Fighter Dr. Lucien Bernard, of the Ministry of Public Health, was struck down himself...
...Henri Matisse, who is 79 this week, permits few visitors. When he goes so far as to let a reporter inside his studio in the Riviera hill town of Vence, the old man is apt to have a surprise up his sleeve. This week in the New York Times Sunday magazine, one of Matisse's most recent visitors, Joseph A. Barry, reported his latest. Matisse, past master of charm and cheerfulness, was designing a chapel...
...French Foreign Office spokesman blasted Law 75 as a fait accompli and "a brutal rebuff." Foreign Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...
...Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium's Socialist Premier, is usually several jumps ahead of political trouble. Last week he was caught off guard. Paul Struye, Spaak 's Minister of Justice, had just commuted the death sentence of two Belgian collaborators. When Socialists joined Communist deputies in protest, Struye, a member of the Catholic party, handed in his resignation, bringing down the coalition cabinet of Socialists and Catholics...
...headquarters in Paris, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was telling one on himself. Spaak spends three days each week in Brussels. There recently he had to make a radio speech. His chauffeur was away, so he hailed a taxi. "The radio building," he ordered the driver. "Sorry, m'sieur," said the cabby, "I haven't the time to drive you. Premier Spaak speaks on the radio tonight, in a few minutes in fact, and like a loyal Socialist I'm going to listen." Glowing with pleasure at the words, Belgium's Premier nevertheless...