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Well may the invaders be on their guard throughout the trip, for bitter competition of European builders has bred threats of attempted sabotage to the planes. Delicate is the position of Shell Petroleum Corp. which, ruled by a British-knighted Hollander, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, is supplying fuel for the invaders' planes...
Last week all Paris was agog with rumors that Prime Minister André Tardieu was seriously pondering whether to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Excitement grew when the private airplane of Sir Henri Deterding, Anglo-Dutch oil tycoon, arrived from London at Le Bourget and Sir Henri sped by motor to confer for two hours with M. Tardieu, then dashed back to his plane, flew home to London. Observers pondered the most widely believed explanation of Sir Henri's movements: he came at the request of M. Tardieu who wanted to know whether French consumers...
...Henri was supposed to have pledged his word that M. Tardieu could count on adequate supplies, fair prices...
...employers' and workmen's committee of seven called politely at the offices of U. S. consul General James G. Carter, explained that what they were going to do was not directed against the people or the Government of the U. S. Then, while the voice of Henri Ravisse, Vice President of the Association of Lace and Tulle Manufacturers, boomed through loudspeakers, "Be calm! Be calm!" 20,000 burghers of Calais paraded mournfully through the streets...
Married. George Newell Armsby, 53, financier (Bancamerica-Blair Corp., California Packing Corp.); and Colette Touzeau, 36, daughter of Henri Touzeau, onetime French master at Eton College, England; in Glendale, Calif. The honeymoon : in Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille's mountain cabin...