Word: hubert
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After three years at St. Cyr, France's West Point, young De Lattre became a lieutenant in the dragoons. He saw action in World War I; in 1921, a captain, he began service under France's late great Marshal Hubert Lyautey in Morocco; in 1929 De Lflttre was called to the general staff. By 1939, at 50, he was the youngest general in the French army...
...take to the dance floor at a party at Londonderry House, and play host to 7,000 guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week...
Leopold's case has been summed up by wartime Premier Hubert Pierlot. "The King is not a traitor," he wrote in 1947. "We have never doubted his good intentions. There is nothing unconstitutional in a King's being wrong, provided he follows the advice of his government. In this case, his ministers take the responsibility for his acts. But the King has acted on his own against the advice of his government . . . What is even more serious, he refrained from informing his ministers of his intentions ... A minister who bears the responsibility has a right to know...
Melone, Thomas Paterson of 116 North Central Street, Clayton: John Burroughs School. Clayton Stout, George Hubert of 5153 Westminster Place, St. Louis; St. Louis Country Day School...
Minnesota's freshman New Dealer Hubert Humphrey read a speech 105 pages long. Senators from the industrial East, Senators from the conservative South, were waiting to be heard. It would be a long hot summer in Washington...