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Behind him lay one of the most extraordinary journeys in U. S. history. Searching for a parallel, commentators could think of only two: President Wilson's voyage to the Peace Conference, Theodore Roosevelt's triumphal tour through Europe after he left the White House. Yet even these, dramatically as they brought the U. S. before Europe's millions, were unlike the trip of Wendell Willkie, private citizen traveling at his own expense, into besieged Britain and out again. When he left, 18 days before, the headlines were announcing the fall of Tobruch and the riots in Rumania...
...green-decked, beflagged arch of the station entrance, down oak-garlanded stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets. With the savage chant of Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! ringing in his ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn by white...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, dictatorial Maestro Arturo Toscanini, nearing the end of a triumphal tour of South America, called his orchestra for a morning rehearsal on July 4. In the empty theatre he led his surprised men through The Star-Spangled Banner, waved a cheery greeting, dismissed them...
...Another column raced in from St. Denis in the northeast. Horse-drawn supply trains clopped across the Place de la Concorde (see cut, p. 21). No single tank or Nazi warrior passed under the famous Arc because that honor was reserved for Adolf Hitler when he should make his triumphal entry...
Results of last week's State elections merely underlined these conclusions. The week was a triumphal parade for the President...