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...most routine of journeys. The world was fed up with heroes, and he was returning to the scenes of his triumph only 17 months after the dramatic moment of victory. But almost as soon as he landed in England three weeks ago, his trip evolved into a triumphal tour such as few Americans had ever experienced...
Winston Churchill returned to London last week from a tour of Belgium. There he had been cheered and feted and wined for his triumphs of war leadership. His return to the political wars at home was not triumphal. The leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition was on a hot spot, heated by men of his own Conservative Party...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...
...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...
...reclaimed fjader, Hägg said after the race that the four-minute mile was no longer a problem: "I believe I could have done it today if there had been more competition." Then, to prove he had plenty left, he sprinted an extra lap in a triumphal shower of torn programs...