Word: kirks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Later that day Flynn received 50 Allied newspapermen at the Barberini Palace, in U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk's huge apartment...
Among the U.S. crews were many veterans of D-day in Normandy, where the big problem had been surf and tides. Not since then had an operation in the European Theater required so much careful preparation. Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk's landborne outfits were ready at H-hour. On the Twenty-first Army Group's north front, soon after the first troops had crossed in assault boats, the Navy's ramp-bowed craft came rolling up to the Rhine on mammoth trucks and were quickly launched. Soon a stream of LCVPs and LCMs were ferrying...
...Ambassador Alexander Kirk, smartly correct in dress and speech, was with them. Catholic Mr. De Gaspari's Communist Under Secretary, Eugenio Reale, was not. In halting English, Minister De Gaspari asked when his stricken country would get economic relief, whether there was any chance of an early German armistice. As the Vatican's No. 1 lay politico, he also asked: what about Russia? Harry Hopkins listened in friendly silence, answered no questions...
...Hopkins received U.S. correspondents in the fabulous magnificence of Ambassador Kirk's apartment in the Palazzo Barberini. Hunched down in a big chair beneath a picture of a Barberini pope, Harry Hopkins munched canapes, sipped wine, said that the Roosevelt Administration now realizes it must take a hand in Europe and its problems...
That afternoon Hopkins flew south to Mediterranean Headquarters near Naples, where he met belated Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Wholly overshadowed by Harry Hopkins, the Secretary of State apparently saw nobody of political importance except Ambassador Kirk. After a dinner with U.S. Generals Ira C. Eaker and Joseph T. McNarney, Messrs. Stettinius and Hopkins hoarded separate planes, vanished into the Big Three silence...