Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tolnay's text is rich with quotations, such as that attributed to Delacroix: "If you are not accomplished enough to make a sketch of a man in midair, falling out of a window, in the time it takes him to travel from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do great work." But few matters in the text are more impressive than de Tolnay's own paragraphs, packed with sound information, flecked with illumination, and free from crotchets. Characteristic is his discussion of Pisanello's place in history...
...President left Washington immediately after his appearance at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day. His method of travel to and from Africa is a military secret. For the rest of the trip he used a Douglas C-54, flying in it to Cairo and Teheran and back from Teheran to Cairo, Carthage, Malta, Sicily and finally to Dakar. His mode of travel from Dakar home was not disclosed...
...wrong facts. His accusations enjoyed wide circulation through the Reader's Digest, which sent three writers about South America with him. Some Latin Americans already fear that the end of the New Deal may mean the end of Good Neighborliness. Hugh Butler's partisan rancor would probably travel faster in South America than the news that all major Republican Presidential possibilities unanimously endorsed Good Neighborliness...
...Australians. Reversing the line it had followed since 1941, Australia's Labor Conference, which is essentially Australia's Government, abandoned isolation. Prime Minister John Curtin, until now kept at home by decree of his party, asked for and got permission to travel; Australia's voice would be heard in the new world now being shaped. In Washington, Ottawa, London, not long after the turn of the year, John Curtin would have his say on a better-integrated British Commonwealth, a position of dominance in the Pacific for Australia...
...important, perhaps, for even the individualistic U.S. to leave wholly in the hands of private enterprise. But whatever the final outcome of last week's Ickes-industry explosion, it should serve one very useful purpose: from now on the U.S. will have to do more than talk and travel. It must evolve a policy...