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...bounded out of the plane briskly, setting foot on English soil for the first time in his life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation Exodus" (the military-code designation for the visit) had unavoidably run into a snafu. Ground haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed...
...body beneath her skirts. Swiss guards mistakenly thought she was pregnant. According to her story, the Nazis offered her 100,000,000 gold lire ($5,000,000) for the diary. She said no. Later she offered it to Hitler and Mussolini in return for Ciano's life-and was refused. By the time the Chicago News and three competitors put in their bids, Ciano was dead, and Edda was in no condition to talk business. The News got the diary from Edda's Swiss lawyers...
...measure of Japan's disrupted civilian life-and of its leaders' fanatical will to drive the nation on to victory or ruin-the Koiso Cabinet ordered all schools above the first grade to close. Henceforth all children above six must help to produce food and munitions, join in air defense and other activities "directly concerned with the prosecution...
...timbered wilderness of north-central British Columbia is a rugged, snow-swept country, where frontiersmen fight for life-and often lose...
...There were 87 people in the doomed party-about half of them children, and half of these less than six years of age. "They were going to California ... to live out their days in the languorous, winterless country. . . . The younger children would grow up in a softer, more abundant life-and their gentility would not be impaired." George Donner's wife, Tamsen, took along "apparatus for preserving botanical specimens, water colors and oil paints, books and school supplies . . . for use in the young ladies' seminary which she hoped to establish in California...