Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Riding through the streets of Bristol, the Ambassador got his first glimpse of the bomb wreckage that he will see every day from now on. Then with the Duke of Kent he boarded a special train for London...
...York before he left, John Winant had said: "I go to England on no special mission," but to the English, at least, his mission had special weight. Part way from Bristol to London the train stopped at a country town. A man in Field Marshal's uniform climbed aboard, shook hands. "I am very glad to welcome you here," said King George VI. As the train started, the nodding, smiling faces of King George, the Duke of Kent and Ambassador Winant could be seen through the windows. Outside London the train stopped again and the party drove away...
Although he left for Europe considerably before Winant, President Conant arrived at Lisbon at the same time; Conant traveled to Portugal by beat, whereas Winant flew by clipper. Both men, together with Benjamin Cohon, New Deal brain-truster, flew to Bristol, England, on Friday...
...Bristol, Liverpool, Southampton, and Cardiff have been bombed especially hard because they...