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...recent UNRRA junket through Latin America learned these facts, it had not reported them. Only an occasional Latin American humorist (see cut) pointed up the irony of UNRRA's requests...
...Cairo he found the five U.S. Senators (Mead, Brewster, Lodge, Russell, Chandler) who made a round-the-world inspection junket last year. "Why," moaned Coward, "when there are so many millions of delightful Americans . . . should such an uninspiring group of men be sent on an overseas mission? . . . Oh, my God, they were dull...
Said one correspondent: "It's beginning to look like a publicity junket for the opening of a supercolossal movie." On hand to cover the Philippine invasion (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), along with assorted writers for OWI, Yank, the Red Cross and the British and Australian press, were no less than 45 U.S. newspaper and magazine correspondents-a Pacific war record.* And more were...
...Chinese junket removed Don from Washington in time to avert an explosive feud inside WPB (TIME, Sept. 4). Otherwise, the trip's purpose was something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China...
...Louis, he assembled his team of 24 Governors and his right bower, Vice Presidential Nominee John W. Bricker, and put them right to work. If any of the Governors had envisioned his trip to St. Louis as a midsummer junket, full of fun & games, he was sorely disappointed. Candidate Dewey had his class report at 10 a.m. the first day, and the atmosphere was clearly one of Positively No Excuses for Tardiness...